Catalog
50 Markkaa, Litt. A 1918
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Value | 50 Markkaa |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned note with a Czarist double-headed eagle vignette at upper centre and a stylised sailing ship vignette in the central field. Denomination numerals appear in the upper left and right corners, with parallel Finnish text to the left and Swedish text to the right of the central design. Two signatures appear at lower centre, with serial numbers at lower left and right, above which the Litt. A overprint is applied. |
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| Reverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI FINLANDS BANK ФИНЛЯНДСКІЙ БАНКЪ ПЯТЬДЕСЯТЪ МАРОКЪ ЗОЛОТОМЪ LAKI SUOMEN SUURIRUHTINAANMAAN RAHASTA ANNETTU HELSINGISSÄ 9P:NÄ ELOKUUTA 1877. 1§ SUOMENMAAN RAHALAITOKSEN KANTANA ON KULTA AINOANA ARVONMITTANA. (Translation: [Top] Bank of Finland, in Finnish and in Swedish. [Bottom in Russian] Bank of Finland Fifty Marks in Gold. [Small lettering on either side] The law on the Grand Duchy of Finland's money enacted in Helsinki on the 9th of August 1877. 1§ The Finnish monetary system determines gold as the only standard of value.) |
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The Litt. A designation on this note reflects a post-issue overprint applied by the Bank of Finland to distinguish notes in circulation during the chaotic monetary separation of 1918, when the newly independent Finnish state needed to differentiate its own currency reserves from those held in Russian-controlled or "Red" Finland during the civil war. Notes bearing the Litt. A mark were validated for use under the White Finnish government; unmarked or differently marked equivalents were not.
The underlying 1909 design was already a decade old by the time that overprint gave it political meaning.