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50 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Printer | Finnish Security Printing House, Helsinki |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette bears a portrait of Kaarlo Juho Ståhlberg (1865–1952), first President of Finland (1919–1925), rendered in intaglio. The denomination numeral 50 appears at centre and is repeated at upper right and lower left corners. Two authorising signatures appear at bottom centre above the series year, with the issuing authority and value inscriptions arranged across the note face in Finnish. |
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| Reverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI VIISIKYMMENTÄ MARKKAA FINLANDS BANK FEMTIO MARK (Translation: Bank of Finland Fifty Marks / Finlands Bank Fifty Marks) |
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Pick 101 is the workhorse note of Finland's 1963 series, printed domestically by the Finnish Security Printing House rather than farmed out to the foreign contractors — De La Rue, Bradbury Wilkinson — that had handled earlier Finnish issues. The replacement note suffix asterisk system used here follows Scandinavian practice of the period, marking substitutes inserted during sheet inspection to replace defective notes before numbering runs were completed.
Replacement asterisk examples from this series turn up far less frequently than regular serials, though they were never formally tracked by the Bank of Finland in published figures.