10 Koppar Schillingar / Kupari Skillingiä

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.