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500 Markkaa, Litt. B
| Issuer | Bank of Finland |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Size | 204 × 120 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI VIISISATAA MARKKAA FINLANDS BANK FEMHUNDRA MARK Litt. B (Translation: Bank of Finland Five Hundred Marks Print. B) |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 |
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Finland's 500 Markkaa series of 1945 came immediately after the country's brutal Continuation War and the armistice terms that imposed heavy reparations on a devastated economy. The Litt. B designation marks a revised letterpress run — the Bank of Finland used literal suffixes to distinguish successive printings within the same design year, a cataloguing habit that reflects how frequently wartime and postwar pressures forced the bank to reprint notes before a full redesign was practical.
Inflation was severe enough that a 500 Markkaa note, once a substantial sum, lost purchasing power rapidly through the late 1940s. The 1945 series was retired well before the 1963 redenomination that replaced 100 old Markkaa with 1 new Markka.