100 Markkaa

Features

Issuer Finland
Issuing bank Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki)
Grand Prince Nicholas II (1894-1917)
Type Standard banknote
Year 1898
Value 100 Markkaa
Currency Markka (1860-1963)
Composition Paper
Size 177 × 103 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
330387
References P# 7
Tracy L. Schmidt (editor); 2019. Standard Catalog of World Paper Money. Modern issues 1961-present (25th edition). Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, United States.
And 2 more volumes.

Series: 1897-98

Obverse

Purple

Denomination in numerals in all four corners.

Farming couple at left.
Eagle Crest in centre right.

Text in Swedish above, and in Finnish below.

Serial number in centre right and on bottom left
Two signatures in bottom centre

Issue year on bottom.

Large 100M in underprint

Lettering:
SUOMEN PANKKI
maksaa tästä setelistä
SATA MARKKAA
KULLASSA

FINLANDS BANK
inlöser denna sedel med
ETTHUNDRA MARK
I GULD

Translation:
Bank of Finland
will pay for this banknote
One Hundred Marks
in Gold
[In Swedish on the top, and in Finnish below it]

Reverse

Arms, Finnish Lion, surrounded by spruce twigs.
Denomination in numerals.

Large text in Russian, Swedish and Finnish.

Smaller text in the circle surrounding the Arms in Swedish and Finnish.

Scripts: Cyrillic, Latin

Lettering:
ФИНЛЯНДСКІЙ БАНКЪ 100 МАРОКЪ ЗОЛОТОМЪ
FINLANDS BANK 100 MARK
SUOMEN PANKKI 100 MARKKAA

LAKI SUOMEN SUURIRUHTINAANMAAN RAHASTA ANNETTU HELSINGISSÄ 9P:NÄ ELOKUUTA 1877. 1§ SUOMENMAAN RAHALAITOKSEN KANTANA ON KULTA AINOANA ARVONMITTANA.

Translation:
[Russian] Bank of Finland 100 Marks in gold
[Swedish and Finnish] Bank of Finland 100 Marks

[Swedish and Finnish, small lettering] The law on the Grand Duchy of Finland's money enacted in Helsinki on 9th of August 1877. 1§ The Finnish department of finance determines gold as the only standard of value

Comments

Three varieties.
p7a. An initial printing of the first 86000 notes was signed by hand.
p7b. Lines under printed signatures.
p7c. Printed signatures without underlines.

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Date No. printed VG F VF XF AU UNC
1898  86 000 Hand signed
1898  1 190 000 Printed signatures

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Past sales

Pictures Sale Date Version Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold 100 MarkkaaPicture 1 of a sold 100 Markkaa
Katz
Auction 97
Lot 590
Internet Archive
7 Oct 2023 Undetermined VF USD 198.30
(EUR 184.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 100 MarkkaaPicture 1 of a sold 100 Markkaa
Katz
Auction 97
Lot 589
Internet Archive
7 Oct 2023 Undetermined F USD 128.25
(EUR 119.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
Picture 1 of a sold 100 MarkkaaPicture 1 of a sold 100 Markkaa
Katz
Auction 93
Lot 1721
Internet Archive
24 Aug 2023 Undetermined F USD 134.71
(EUR 125.00)
(+ buyer's premium)
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