100 years of the independent Finland

6.12 - 0 am

The independent Finland turns 100 on 6.12, in Finland, now. Actually five minutes ago the day started but its not been 100 years since it yet.
Finnish coins: Finland 1917

This coin was everywhere at the time of Finland's independence. The issuing stopped when the october revolution happened and the bolsheviks got power. These were legal tender until 1990's but because of the fact that the silver in it was much more valuable than the worth of the coin, it was usually not used.
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces10389.html

Well, after Finland got its independence there was the civil war between the reds (communists) and the whites (Democracy supporters, mostly richer people who missed their tsar) because the workers trusted in communism and thought it was good for them, and so did the upper class. But the result was the best possible, democracy. The reds actually minted 2 main coins when they were in control of the mint of Helsinki: 5penniä the "workers unite" coin, and the weird thing is that they also minted some 25 penniä coins of 1917 not changing anything.


After the independence, they never issued silver coins other than the silver markka and the 1950's 100 and 200 markkaa coins. Gold coins were never really used in circulation or trade after the civil war. The age of Iron, coppernickel and copper started. It ended in 1960's and the new markka was issued. It included aluminium, copper, coppernickel (and more) coins. The only bimetal markka coin that was used was the 10 markkaa of the 1990's. After the markka, came the age of euro.

Some people though miss the markka so much that they are deperately trying to get it back some day, for example Vesa Keskinen who owns the rights of the word suomen markka and the famous Finnish politician

Paavo väyrynen. He even minted his own 5 markkaa tokens that are the worth of 5euro and can only be used at his company. He has been in probably almost every presidential vote since the 1880...I mean 1980's.

So, good luck Finland.


https://youtube.com/watch?v=xZpijQpOrg4Here is also a video of Mannerheim visiting the german fuhrer. It shows that Finland also had dark sides. But why is mannerheim carrying that weird stick everywhere?

Happy birthday.

Carrying my 10 pennia coin around today!

Hyvää syntymäpäivää, Finland.

SRL

Citeer: "Monninen1"

I think that Finland isn't actually that dark. To it's credit Finland never signed the Tripartite Pact (by Germany, Italy and Japan), and there was no persecution of Jews, etc. in Finland, who seems to be only co-belligerent with Germany to reclaim what was taken by the Soviets in 1940.

Anyway, Happy 100th Birthday to a lovely Nordic nation!

But why is mannerheim carrying that weird stick everywhere?

its a shush stick, you use it to w ack people on the head to shush them when they say the wrong thing.

Citeer: "CassTaylor"​

Citeer: "Monninen1"​

​I think that Finland isn't actually that dark. To it's credit Finland never signed the Tripartite Pact (by Germany, Italy and Japan), and there was no persecution of Jews, etc. in Finland, who seems to be only co-belligerent with Germany to reclaim what was taken by the Soviets in 1940.
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​Anyway, Happy 100th Birthday to a lovely Nordic nation!

​Finland had rough times during the 1940's. There actually were war camps where most people put there died.
Mannerheim was a mysterious person. Nobody knew him very well. The leaders of germany thought he was a "friend". But he was a great person, he (with a little help) saved us twice from the soviet union.

The stick Mannerheim is holding?

It is a marshal's baton. A marshal's baton is a rod that is a part of the marshals’ uniform. The rod is hollow and contains the mandate of the marshal.

SRL

Mannerheim's stick is in a museum nowadays

Mannerheim's museum in Helsinki is amazing. Definitely worth a visit if you like history.