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5000 Markkaa 1939
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki - Finlands Bank |
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| Year | 1939 |
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| Reference(s) | P#68 |
| Obverse description | 1939 provisional issue on the 1922 series 500 Markkaa Litt. A note, printed in brown with a dark blue letterpress overprint revaluing the note to 5000 Markkaa. The overprint text appears in two columns, Finnish on the left and Swedish on the right, applied across the face of the underlying note. |
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| Reverse lettering | 500 |
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Finland's highest-denomination note at the time of issue, the 5000 Markkaa was printed just as the country was mobilizing for what would become the Winter War against the Soviet Union — hostilities began in November 1939, barely months after notes bearing this date entered circulation. At that level of purchasing power, the note was not a retail instrument; it moved between banks and larger commercial entities, which is precisely why heavily circulated examples are uncommon.
Pick 68 belongs to a series printed by the Finnish State Printing Office in Helsinki, and the 1939 date marks the last issue of this denomination before wartime finance fundamentally restructured Suomen Pankki's emission priorities.