10 Markkaa / Mark

Finland's post-independence central bank continued issuing notes under its bilingual Finnish-Swedish identity, a political necessity in a country still negotiating internal language tensions through the 1920s. The 1922 series represented an attempt at fiscal stabilization after the severe inflation that followed the Civil War of 1918 and the break from Russian monetary influence.

Printed domestically — unusual for Finnish notes of this period, many of which relied on foreign presses — P#57 was produced in sufficient quantity that circulated examples are not especially scarce, though the cotton substrate is prone to splitting along fold lines.