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10 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Printer | Finnish Government Printing Office, Helsinki |
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| Obverse description | Brown-toned note with a central vignette of a tree, flanked by the numeral 10 on both the left and right sides. Finnish text appears on the left and Swedish on the right, with two signatures at the bottom centre and serial numbers at the lower left and right. The series year appears in the bottom margin below the central design. |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI KYMMENEN MARKKAA FINLANDS BANK TIO MARK 1922 (Translation: Bank of Finland Ten Marks 1922) |
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Finland's post-independence currency stabilization was a slow process, and this 1922 series was part of a broader effort to consolidate the markka's standing after the severe disruptions of the 1918 civil war and the inflationary pressures that followed. The Finnish Government Printing Office had assumed domestic production of banknotes relatively early — an unusual degree of self-sufficiency for a young republic that had only formally separated from Russia in 1917.
Pick 43 belongs to a transitional period before the major 1926 monetary reform that pegged the markka to gold, after which this series was withdrawn from circulation fairly quickly.