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10 Markkaa, Litt A-C
| Issuer | Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 10 Markkaa |
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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 panel and Swedish text on the right, with two signatures in the lower centre and the series year in the bottom margin; later printings carry a Litt designation (A, B, or C) in the upper left, with serial numbers positioned at upper left and lower right. |
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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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The 1922 10 Markkaa was printed domestically at a moment when Finland was still building the institutional infrastructure of an independent state — the country had only separated from Russia in 1917. Printing at the Finnish Government Printing Office in Helsinki, rather than contracting abroad as many newly independent nations did, was a deliberate assertion of self-sufficiency, though the quality of early domestic runs was uneven and the series required multiple lithographic corrections, hence the Litt A through C suffix variants.
The suffix designations track those plate revisions, not separate issue dates. Collectors conflating the three as a single type routinely undervalue the scarcer Litt C.