I just found the banknote of your country, i can easily say that it is one of the most beautiful in europe, such a shame it got replaced by euro…Im a banknote collector btw! Can someone also tell me what could you have bought with this?

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  1. Old 100 mark bill, it used to be about as valuable as current days 100€ more or less, even if the exchange rate to euro is 6:1.

  3. 10 loafs of bread. Or 10 packs of cigarettes. Or 10 beers in a cheap pub. Or 1 CD music album.

  6. Fun fact, the composer pictured on the note had stayed up all night partying before that photo was taken, and he himself always hated that particular photo of him.

    Nevertheless, he succeeded to compose the most beautiful and haunting pieces of music ever written by man https://youtu.be/9PBGPdYAG0c

  7. When they swapped to Euro, Markka was worth about 1:5.6 if I remember right. So, to make it easy we figured 10 euro was about 60 Markka.

  9. Finding one of these in your birthday card was the best feeling ever. That’s ten weeks worth of pocket money! Ten weeks worth of candy! You could get so much ice cream from the ice cream kiosk!

  12. Two GIANT packs of Pokemon cards. Mom never forgave me. But boy was I happy when I got 2 Blastoises.

  14. 9 bags of 300 gram delicious candy mix.

    I was lucky enough kid to own a thousand mark note once every few years. That note I thought is even more beautiful than the 100 mark one (might be also my emotional association to it). You could get some top of the line toy or some cool electronics with that. I was very frugal and patient, and many times contemplated some purchase for nearly a year, weighting the pros and cons of it. With some purchases I even waited many years if I was saving for something big.

    There were so many things that I didn’t get which my friends at school did, so when I had patiently saved and worked for something for a very long time, I appreciated the thing very very much. Scarcity taught me the value of money and to appreciate the things I was able to have.

  24. Wow, interesting that the former Finnish currency was actually called mark. This was the name of the German currency before the Euro (Deutsche Mark), and it clearly is a Germanic word.

  25. 30 beers and 2 packs of Marlboros. I know that because my weekly allowance was 50 marks and i allways bought 15 beers and one pack of cigarettes 🤭

  27. i still have 500 mark bill which I got for a xmas present 1999. Too bad that I never had the money to save a 1000mk bill. I like to collect too (I have 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 500 bills saved – 1, 5 were from the 60s and were replaced with coins in the 80s if i recall right)😅

  29. I think back in the days i.e. brand new Nokia 5110 was something like 600-800mk. Let the year be, without checking, around 2000.

  30. In the 90’s you could get 10 bottles of beer, rolling cigarette bundel (papers, filters and the tobacco) and you could even give some money to your friend for gas to his car when you go driving around the town!

    Or you could buy groceries for at least a week!

  37. As a rule of thumb, a bagful of supermarket groceries. Now it’s 100 Euros… EDIT: our shopping plastic bags can fit more than a case of beer though

  38. When I was 18 years old that bank note was enough for a night out.

    100mk was 16€. Nowadays a beer costs in a bar 8-10€.

  39. My grandmother used to send us marks in the mail on our birthdays. We would save them up. Eventually we visited her one summer in 1999 in Kiuruvesi when I was 14 and spent it all. I wish I had kept one or two.

  40. I recall 2 ball icecream cone cost 10 marks around year 2000. So you could get 10 of those. Another price I recall was Megaman X game for supernintendo cost 200 marks, which was alot for a supernintendo game.

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