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5 Markkaa / Mark
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki / Finlands Bank |
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| Year | 1922 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green intaglio-printed note with a central oval vignette of a conifer tree set against a lightly guilloche-patterned background, flanked on each side by large numeral '5' and ornate foliate border columns. The series letter 'Litt. A' appears in the upper left, with bilingual issuer inscriptions and denomination text arranged in two columns below the vignette. Two matching serial numbers are printed in the lower margin, with two manuscript signatures between them. |
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| Reverse description | Uniformly green note with a central armorial vignette of the Finnish lion coat of arms on a shield, surrounded by a dense wreath of oak branches tied at the base, set within an elaborate guilloche border. Large numeral '5' appears on each side of the central vignette. The overall design is executed in intaglio with fine-line geometric underprint filling the field. |
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Finland's postwar monetary situation in the early 1920s was complicated by severe inflation that had eaten through the wartime issues, making small-denomination paper a practical necessity even as the Bank worked toward stabilization. The 5 Markkaa of this series was domestically printed — unusual for Finnish notes of the period, which had frequently relied on Swedish and German facilities before and during the First World War.
Pick 49 is among the more readily encountered survivor notes from interwar Finland, though examples with intact margins and undamaged watermark zones are less common than raw survival numbers suggest.