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''Recorded mintage:'' 50,000. | ''Recorded mintage:'' 50,000. | ||
| − | ''Specification:'' 4.21 g, .900 fine gold, 18.5 mm diameter. | + | ''Specification:'' 4.21 g, 0.900 fine gold, 18.5 mm diameter. |
''Catalog reference:'' Fr-8; KM-28; Sieg-83. | ''Catalog reference:'' Fr-8; KM-28; Sieg-83. | ||
Revision as of 18:08, 23 September 2023
This specimen was lot 40092 in Ponterio sale 168 (Philadelphia, August 2012), where it sold for $2,115. The catalog description[1] noted, "FINLAND. 100 Markkaa, 1926-S. PCGS MS-64 Secure Holder." Finland obtained her independence from Russia in 1917-18 but still struggled financially. This gold hundred markkaa is smaller than the old tsarist twenty markkaa. This and an accompanying two hundred markkaa (KM 29) are the only circulating gold issues of the republic.
Recorded mintage: 50,000.
Specification: 4.21 g, 0.900 fine gold, 18.5 mm diameter.
Catalog reference: Fr-8; KM-28; Sieg-83.
- Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
- Friedberg, Arthur L. and Ira S. Friedberg, Gold Coins of the World, From Ancient Times to the Present, 9th ed., Clifton, NJ: Coin and Currency Institute, 2017.
- [1]Ponterio, Richard, Ponterio sale 168: The Official ANA Auction, Irvine, CA: Stack's Bowers LLC, 2012.
Link to:
- 1913-S 20 markkaa
- 1926 200 markkaa
- 1935 10 penniä
- Coins and currency dated 1926
- return to coins of Finland