100 Markkaa

Features

Issuer Finland
Issuing bank Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki)
Period Provisional Government (1917-1919)
Type Standard banknote
Year 1909
Value 100 Markkaa
Currency Markka (1860-1963)
Composition Paper
Size 170 × 100 mm
Shape Rectangular
Demonetized Yes
Number
N#
330530
References P# 19E, 22
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: 1909 (1917-18)

Obverse

Wine red on grey green underprint.
Czarist eagle at upper centre.

Farmer plowing at left and right.
Denomination in numerals on top left and right corners.

Text in Finnish on left, and Swedish on right.

Serial numbers on left and right bottom.
Signatures in bottom centre.

Lettering:
SUOMEN PANKKI
MAKSAA TÄSTÄ SETELISTÄ
SATA MARKKAA
KULLASSA

Translation:
Bank of Finland
will pay for this banknote
One Hundred Marks
in gold

Reverse

Wine red on grey green underprint, with a Finnish church in black in the centre.

Large numeral 100 on either side.

Finnish and Swedish text in top border, Russian text in bottom border.
Small text in Finnish on left, and Swedish on right.

Lettering:
SUOMEN PANKKI
FINLANDS BANK
ФИНЛЯНСКЙ БАНК СТО МАРОКЪ ЗОЛОТОМЪ

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

Translation:
[Top] Bank of Finland, in Finnish and in Swedish.
[Bottom in Russian] Bank of Finland One Hundred Marks in Gold

[Small lettering on either side] 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

P19E. Senate Issue, 1917.
p22. People's Commissariat, 1918.

p28. Banknotes marked Litt. A issued in 1918: https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note331173.html
See https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note330624.html for p31. Banknotes marked Sarja II, printed in bright red and issued in 1918.

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Date No. printed VG F VF XF AU UNC Frequency
1909  27 750 000 25% p.19E. Senate Issue, 1917.
1909  208 000 75% p.22. People's Commissariat, 1918

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Pictures Sale Date Version Grade Sold price
Picture 1 of a sold 100 MarkkaaPicture 1 of a sold 100 Markkaa
Katz
Auction 78
Lot 1338
Internet Archive
1 Mar 2023 Undetermined VF USD 29.12
(EUR 27.00)
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