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50 Penniä Kullassa / Penni i Guld / Penni Zolotom' (Gold Penny)
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki / Finlands Bank / Finlandskiy Bank' |
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| Year | 1916 |
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| Size | 105 x 62 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI FINLANDS BANK PENNIÄ 50 PENNI ФИНЛЯНДСКІЙ БАНКЪ 50 ПЕННИ ЗОЛОТОМЪ |
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| Protection type | Guilloche underprint |
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Finland's wartime monetary system fractured badly after 1914. The gold-backed ruble collapsed in practice, and Finnish banknote issuance became its own quiet act of institutional defiance — these small-denomination "gold penny" notes were denominated in a notional gold standard that no longer functionally existed, a legal fiction the bank maintained to preserve some theoretical anchor against Russian imperial paper inflation bleeding across the border.
The trilingual titles — Finnish, Swedish, Russian — reflect Finland's status as a Russian Grand Duchy, though by 1916 that arrangement had fewer than two years left.