Still, I do think that the story of the Finnish currency is above all the story of integration, and the story of a quest for stability. Finland’s currency was born out of the desire for stability in the aftermath of the great commercial crisis of 1857. This global crisis destabilized the Russian rouble.
In Finland, the depreciation of the rouble raised demands for the re-establishment of the silver standard, even by unilateral action in Finland, if necessary. In 1860, a national monetary unit, the markka, was granted to Finland. The markka was originally defined as a quarter of the paper rouble, but five years later it was made convertible to silver.