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10 Roubles
| Issuer | Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki) |
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| Year | 1841-1857 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Red guilloche underprint on white paper. Imperial Russian double-headed eagle vignette at top centre, flanked by ornate rosette corner pieces. The central text panel carries the denomination and promise-to-pay inscription in Russian, Swedish, and Finnish, surrounded by a rectangular guilloche border frame. |
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| Reverse lettering | Suomen Pankki maksaa tästä Setelistä KYMMENEN Ruplaa hopiassa. Förfalskning eller efterapning af denna Sedel, äfvensom utprängling af den förfalskade, anses med det i Kejserl. Förordningen af den 1/8 November 1812 stadgade ansvar. Tämän Setetin vääräntäminen eli mukaaminen, ja semmoisten Rahoin käyttkäminen, rangaistaan Keisarillisen Asetuksen jälkeen, annettu sinä 1/8 päivänä Marras Kuussa 1812 vuonna. |
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Finland's monetary situation in the mid-nineteenth century was genuinely peculiar: the country was a Grand Duchy under the Russian Empire, and the Bank of Finland issued notes denominated in Russian roubles while operating under Finnish law. This note predates the introduction of the Finnish markka in 1860, which finally gave the duchy its own distinct monetary unit — a concession extracted partly through the persistent lobbying of Johan Vilhelm Snellman.
The series ran across a sixteen-year window but actual print runs were small, and few examples survived the eventual conversion period when rouble-denominated Finnish notes were systematically withdrawn.