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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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Pink and grey note with a central guilloche rosette enclosing the numeral '10', framed by symmetrical vignettes of decorative trophy-style ornaments — a fasces with laurel branches at left and a ship's wheel with foliage at right. The heading 'KYMMENEN MARKKAA.' appears at top centre in bold letterpress, with trilingual corner panels reading '10 MARK' in Swedish (upper left), '20 МАРОКЪ' in Russian (upper right). A substantial block of trilingual legal text in Finnish, Swedish, and Russian occupies the lower portion of the note, citing the ordinance of 13 April 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.