Catalog
50 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Value | 50 Markkaa |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned note with a central eagle crest vignette flanked at left by a female allegorical figure holding a tablet. Denomination numerals occupy three corners over a large "50M" guilloche underprint, with the serial number printed at centre and lower left. Two authorising signatures appear at bottom centre beneath the issue year. |
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| Reverse description | The Finnish coat of arms — the rampant lion — occupies the central vignette, enclosed within a wreath of spruce twigs. The denomination numeral "50" appears alongside trilingual text in Russian, Swedish, and Finnish arranged around the central arms, with a smaller circular legend in Swedish and Finnish citing the monetary law of 9 August 1877. |
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The 1898 series for Suomen Pankki was produced while Finland remained an autonomous Grand Duchy under the Russian Empire, but the notes were deliberately Finnish in character — issued in Finnish and Swedish, denominated in markka rather than rubles, and administered entirely through Helsinki. The Bank of Finland had operated its own currency since 1860, a monetary arrangement St. Petersburg tolerated until the pressures of Russification policy later made such autonomy politically fraught.
Pick 6 is among the less commonly encountered denominations from this issue, as higher-value notes saw more restricted day-to-day circulation and suffered higher attrition through official cancellation and destruction at redemption.