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5000 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1945 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Reverse description | The central device comprises the Finnish Coat of Arms, a rampant lion armoured and holding an upright straight sword while trampling a curved sabre underfoot, set against a field of nine roses. The denomination in numerals occupies each of the four corners, with the denomination rendered in words in both Finnish and Swedish along either side of the central arms. |
| Reverse lettering | VIISITUHATTA MARKKAA • FEMTUSEN MARK SUOMEN PANKKI FINLANDS BANK (Translation: Five Thousand Marks Bank of Finland) |
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Finland's postwar monetary situation was acute. The 1945 series was issued under severe inflationary pressure following wartime reparations obligations to the Soviet Union — reparations that ultimately consumed roughly a quarter of Finland's annual industrial output over eight years. High-denomination notes like this one entered circulation as purchasing power collapsed, and were largely withdrawn when the markka was revalued at 100:1 in 1963.
The P#83 series was printed domestically by the Bank of Finland's own printing works in Helsinki, one of the few European central banks operating its own full production facility at the time.