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50 Markkaa, Litt. D
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1939 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Blue-toned note with a large numeral '50' in the left field and a central vignette of six classical allegorical figures in the right-centre, with a steamer vessel to the left. The Finnish Lion coat of arms appears at the lower right, with bilingual text in Finnish and Swedish. The 'Litt. D' overprint is positioned at the upper left, serial numbers appear at the lower left and upper right, and two signatures with the series year are printed at the lower centre. |
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| Reverse description | The Finnish Lion coat of arms is centred within a wreath of spruce branches, with the large denomination numeral '50' in the field. |
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The Litt. D designation marks this as the fourth letter variant of the 1939 50 Markkaa series — Suomen Pankki issued successive letter suffixes as print runs were exhausted and new serial number ranges opened, a Finnish practice that helps date production batches within a single nominal year. This particular issue was printed entirely in-house at the Bank of Finland's own setelipaino, one of the few central banks in Europe at the time with fully internalized note production.
The timing matters: Finland entered the Winter War against the Soviet Union in November 1939, and notes from this year circulated under wartime conditions almost immediately after printing.