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500 Markkaa
| Issuer | Bank of Finland |
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| Year | 1975 |
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| Value | 500 Markkaa (500 FIM) |
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| Reverse lettering | VIISISATAA MARKKAA FEMHUNDRA MARK SUOMEN PANKKI FINLANDS BANK (Translation: Five Hundred Marks Bank of Finland [in Finnish and Swedish]) |
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| Variants | P#110r(25) - signatures: Replacement note with serial # suffix * P#110r(32) - signatures: Replacement note with serial # suffix * P#110r(34) - signatures: Replacement note with serial # suffix * |
| Comments |
Finland's 500 Markkaa of 1975 belongs to a series that was among the first Finnish notes designed and printed entirely domestically, a shift from the country's earlier dependence on foreign security printers. The Finnish Security Printing House had been building that capability through the 1960s, and by the mid-1970s the operation was technically capable of handling the full production run in-house.
The watermark remains the sole listed security feature — modest by contemporary international standards, though Finland's relatively low counterfeiting pressure at the time made elaborate measures less urgent than in larger economies.