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5 Markkaa, Sarja II 1918
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Green note with a Czarist double-headed eagle vignette at upper centre, flanked by denomination numerals at the top left and right corners. Bilingual text runs in two columns — Finnish on the left and Swedish on the right — with authorising signatures at lower centre and serial numbers at lower left and right, each prefaced by the series designation 'Sarja II' (Finnish) and 'Serie II' (Swedish). |
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| Reverse description | Green note with a central black vignette of a rowboat on a river, flanked on each side by a large guilloche-framed numeral '5'. Bilingual Finnish and Swedish text appears in the top border, with Russian text in the bottom border; smaller legal-clause text in Finnish and Swedish is set in two columns on either side of the central vignette. |
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This note was issued under the Bank of Finland's pre-independence authorization but circulated into a radically different political reality. The "Sarja II 1918" designation reflects the White government's reissue of older Bank of Finland stock during the Finnish Civil War — the same physical notes, reprinted or restamped to distinguish White-controlled currency from Red-issued alternatives circulating simultaneously in the south.
Finland declared independence in December 1917; by January 1918 the country was at war with itself. Currency became a political instrument almost immediately, with both sides issuing or reauthorizing notes to assert financial legitimacy.