1 Markka

Features

Issuer	Finland
Period	Republic (1919-date)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	1928-1940
Value	1 Markka
Currency	Markka (1860-1963)
Composition	Copper-nickel (75% Copper, 25% Nickel)
Weight	4 g
Diameter	21 mm
Thickness	1.6 mm
Shape	Round
Technique	Milled
Orientation	Medal alignment ↑↑
Demonetized	1963
Number	N# 7683
References	KM# 30 Standard Catalog of World Coins (86 volumes). , Schön# 23 Battenberg Gietl Verlag (publisher). Weltmünzkatalog. Battenberg Gietl Verlag, Regenstauf, Bavaria, Germany (4 volumes).

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Obverse

Arms of Finland (a rampant lion left with the right foreleg replaced with an armoured hand brandishing a sword, trampling on a sabre with the hind paws) dividing the date

Script: Latin

Lettering:
19 31
S

Engraver: Isak Gustaf Sundell

Reverse

Denomination flanked by spruce branches

Script: Latin

Lettering:
1
MARKKA

Engraver: Isak Gustaf Sundell

Edge

Reeded

Mint

Mint of Finland (Suomen Rahapaja), Helsinki, Finland (1860-1988)

Mark

S	Isak Gustaf Sundell, Mint Master, Mint of Finland (1912-1947)

Comments

Coins dated 1929S and 1930S are known to be restruck on 1921-1924, KM#27 coins.
A 1929S as example:

Clearly underneath the Lion the imprint of the 1 of the predecessor in the planchet after which it came loose and the final strike occurred.

Ronald Beumer

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Date		Mintage	VG	F	VF	XF	AU	Frequency
Undetermined
1928	S	3 000 000	$ 0.10	$ 0.68	$ 1.00	$ 2.70	$ 3.50	26%
1929	S	3 862 000	$ 0.24	$ 0.48	$ 0.99	$ 1.20		26%
1930	S	10 284 000		$ 0.46	$ 0.93	$ 1.50		34%
1931	S	2 830 000	$ 0.22	$ 0.50	$ 0.62	$ 1.20		20%
1932	S	4 140 000			$ 0.58	$ 2.20		16%
1933	S	4 032 000		$ 0.62	$ 0.62	$ 1.00		20%
1936	S	562 000			$ 1.70	$ 5.60		8%
1937	S	4 930 000		$ 0.35	$ 0.64	$ 1.20		22%
1938	S	4 410 000			$ 0.58	$ 1.30		20%
1939	S	3 070 000		$ 0.36	$ 0.60	$ 1.20		18%
1940	S	3 372 000			$ 0.75	$ 0.75	$ 0.75	17%

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