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| 表面の説明 | Pink and grey note with a central text panel bearing the bilingual (Swedish/Finnish) promise to pay inscription, with 'FINLANDS BANK' and 'TIO MARK i guld' in Swedish above 'Kymmenen Markkaa' in Finnish in large ornate script. To the left, a dark intaglio vignette of the Finnish coat of arms eagle within a shield, flanked by decorative foliate work; to the right, a circular guilloche lozenge bearing the numeral '10'. The date '1878' appears in a decorative cartouche at the base, with serial number and manuscript signatures of the Direktör and Tjänsteman below the central text. A circular blue cancellation stamp reading 'MAKULERAD 1886' is applied over the face. |
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| 表面の銘文 | FINLANDS BANK TIO MARK i guld Emot denna sedel betalar FINLANDS BANK vid anfordran Tästä setelistä maksaa Suomen Pankki vaadittaessa Kymmenen Markkaa kullassa DIREKTÖR I BANKEN TJENSTEMAN I BANKEN 1878 |
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Finland in 1878 was an autonomous grand duchy under Russian imperial rule, but Suomen Pankki operated with considerable independence and issued currency denominated in markkaa — a deliberate distancing from the Russian ruble that had been formalized when Finland adopted its own monetary system in 1860. The markka was pegged to silver, then to gold from 1878 onward, which gives this note a specific monetary-policy context: it entered circulation precisely when Finland joined the gold standard.
P#A44 is among the earlier lithographed issues from this period, before the bank transitioned to more elaborate intaglio printing for later series. Survivors in any condition are genuinely uncommon.