10 Koppar Schillingar / Kupari Skillingiä

Obverse description	Entirely letterpress-printed in black on aged laid paper, this unadorned single-sided note carries a handwritten issue date and serial number at upper centre. The bilingual text body — in Swedish above and Finnish below — sets out the bank's obligation to pay the bearer ten copper shillings on demand at Stockholm, with the denomination repeated in full at the foot of the text block. Two manuscript signatures appear in the lower portion, accompanied by a fine-print cautionary legend beneath the main text.
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Comments	Riksens Ständers Banco — the Estates of the Realm's Bank, predecessor to the Riksbank — issued this note during a period of acute Swedish monetary stress. The Napoleonic Wars had disrupted trade across the Baltic, and copper-denominated small notes like this one were a practical response to the near-total disappearance of copper coin from everyday circulation. The bilingual denomination, Swedish and Finnish, reflects Sweden's administrative reach before Finland was ceded to Russia in 1809. Notes of this series are known to be fragile; the paper quality of early nineteenth-century Swedish small-denomination issues was notoriously poor, and fold failures at the center cross are common.