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20 Kopecks Turku - Bank
| Issuer | Växel-, Depositions- och Lånebanken i Åbo (Exchange, Deposit and Loan Bank in Turku) |
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| Year | 1819 |
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| Currency | Rouble (1809-1860) |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on plain paper in a text-only letterpress format, the face carries the full trilingual promissory text in Swedish, Finnish, and Russian set in a blackletter Gothic typeface, with the date '22 Juni 1819' written in manuscript and countersigned by two bank officials. A circular impressed dry seal bearing the denomination '20' is applied at the lower centre, and the serial number is hand-inscribed in ink at the upper margin. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is entirely unprinted, presenting a plain paper surface with visible horizontal and vertical fold lines consistent with the note having been carried in circulation; faint manuscript text impressions from the obverse are discernible through the paper. |
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| Protection type | Dry seal, Manuscript signatures |
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