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5 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1897 |
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| Value | 5 Markkaa |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI maksaa tästä setelistä VIISI MARKKAA KULLASSA FINLANDS BANK inlöser denna sedel med FEM MARK I GULD (Translation: Bank of Finland will pay for this banknote Five Marks in Gold [In Swedish on the top, and in Finnish below it]) |
| Reverse description | Central vignette of the Finnish Lion Arms, surrounded by spruce branch ornaments, with denomination numerals at the corners. Three-language text block in Russian, Swedish and Finnish occupies the upper and lower portions of the note, with smaller legends in Swedish and Finnish running within a circular border surrounding the central arms. |
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Finland's first banknote series issued under the authority of Suomen Pankki as a fully autonomous institution — though the country itself remained a Grand Duchy under Russian imperial rule in 1897. The markka had been legally separated from the Russian ruble in 1865, and this note is part of the infrastructure that enforced that monetary distinction in practice.
Pick #1 designation suggests this was among the earliest catalog entries for Finnish paper money, and surviving examples in any condition are genuinely scarce. The 1890s low-denomination notes circulated hard.