10 Markkaa, Litt. A

Finland's central bank printed its own notes from its Helsinki facility — one of relatively few European issuing authorities to do so consistently through the postwar decades. The 1963 Litt. A designation distinguishes this emission from subsequent letter variants within the same Pick type, a practice the Bank of Finland used to track production batches without issuing entirely new designs.

Replacement notes in this series are identified by an asterisk suffix on the serial number. The sheer number of replacement signature varieties listed for P#104 suggests active and prolonged use of star replacements across multiple signing periods — worth noting when attributing examples to specific issue windows.