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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Eidolon, post: 4457368, member: 102103&quot;]Day 46:&nbsp; A Finland 1 Markka, 1866</p><p><br /></p><p>The design on the obverse of this one feels very Russian to me.&nbsp; Maybe not unreasonable, as the Grand Duchy (or Principality, depending on how you translate it) of Finland was part of the Russian Empire from 1809-1917.&nbsp; Finland only had its own currency, the Markka, starting a few years earlier, in 1860.&nbsp; This coin is from an unfortunate time for Finland, at the start of the Great Famine of 1866-1868.&nbsp; Poor harvests and unseasonal weather caused about 8 of the population to die of hunger, according to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_famine_of_1866–68" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_famine_of_1866–68" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>.&nbsp; This was the last major European famine caused by natural events.&nbsp; All since have been due to politics or war...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1111561[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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