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50 Markkaa, Litt. B
| Issuer | Bank of Finland |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Printer | Suomen Pankin Setelipaino, Helsinki |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned note with the Arms of Finland (Finnish Lion) vignette at left. Bilingual text in Finnish and Swedish appears within the printed area, with two manuscript signatures at bottom centre and serial numbers at lower left and lower right. The overprint 'Litt. B' is present at upper right within the printed border. |
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| Reverse description | Central vignette of a young farming couple. The series year 1945 appears beneath the central design, with denomination numerals in all four corners of the note. Denomination in words is rendered at either side of the central vignette, with the bank title in Finnish along the top margin and in Swedish along the bottom margin. |
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The Litt. B designation marks a second printing of the wartime 50 Markkaa type, issued as Finland was navigating the brutal economic aftermath of the Continuation War — reparations to the Soviet Union were already consuming a significant share of national output, and inflationary pressure was acute. The Bank of Finland's own printing facility in Helsinki handled production throughout the series, which was unusual for Finnish notes of this era; earlier issues had routinely gone abroad to foreign security printers.
The Litt. A and Litt. B printings are distinguished primarily by serial letter prefixes, not by major plate differences — a detail that trips up collectors working from incomplete census data.