Blue on orange underprint. Czarist eagle removed from design. Denomination in numerals on top left and right corners. Text in Finnish on left, and Swedish on right. Signatures in bottom centre, serial numbers on left and right bottom.
Reverse description
Stylized tree in centre, with Finnish Arms Lion of Finland below. Text in Finnish and Swedish. Small text in Finnish on left, and Swedish on right.
Signature(s)
Protection type
Protection description
Obverse lettering
SUOMEN PANKKI
MAKSAA TÄSTÄ SETELISTÄ
KAKSIKYMMENTÄ
MARKKAA KULLASSA (Translation: Bank of Finland will pay for this banknote Twenty Marks in gold)
Reverse lettering
SUOMEN PANKKI
FINLANDS BANK
LAKI SUOMEN SUURIRUHTINAANMAAN RAHASTA ANNETTU HELSINGISSÄ 9P:NÄ
ELOKUUTA 1877. 1§ SUOMENMAAN RAHALAITOKSEN KANTANA ON KULTA AINOANA
ARVONMITTANA. (Translation: Bank of Finland, in Finnish [left] and in Swedish [right]. [Small lettering on either side] The law on the Grand Duchy of Finland`s money enacted in Helsinki on 9th of August 1877. 1§ The Finnish department of finance determines gold as the only standard of value)