Catalog
10 Markkaa, Litt. A 1918
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Value | 10 Markkaa |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI MAKSAA TÄSTÄ SETELISTÄ KYMMENEN MARKKAA KULLASSA (Translation: Bank of Finland will pay for this banknote Ten Marks in gold) |
| Reverse description | Black-printed intaglio vignette at centre portrays a log cabin farmhouse with two cows in the foreground, rendered in fine engraved style. Multiline text in Finnish, Swedish, and Russian surrounds the central image, carrying the denomination and statutory monetary legislation of the Grand Duchy of Finland. The overall composition is framed by typeset border inscriptions referencing the monetary law of 9 August 1877. |
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This note was printed in 1909 but pressed into service under radically different political circumstances — the "Litt. A 1918" designation marks notes overprinted or formally acknowledged for use during the Finnish Civil War year, when the White Finnish government and Red Finnish factions each scrambled to control monetary supply. Suomen Pankki remained nominally continuous through the conflict, but currency legitimacy was anything but settled.
Pick 25 is one of the earlier Suomen Pankki issues predating independence, making its 1918 circulation life a notable biographical detail for a note conceived under Russian imperial oversight.