Catalog
50 Kopecks
| Issuer | Wäxel-, Depositions- och Låne-Banken i Finland (Exchange, Deposit and Loan Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1824-1840 |
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| Value | 50 Kopecks (0.50) |
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| Obverse lettering | Femtio Kopek Uti Storfurstemdömet Finlands wäxel-depositions och låne-bank är insatt en summa av femtio kopeck kejserliga ryska banko-assignationer, hvilka 50 kopek innehafveren häraf har att återbekomma. Wiisi Kymmentä kopekaa (Translation: Fifty Kopeks In the Grand Principality of Finland`s Exchange-Deposit and Loan Bank are held the sum of fifty kopecks Imperial Russian Bank Assignats, of which the holder has 50 kopeck to receive. Fifty Kopeks Fifty Kopeks) |
| Reverse description | Essentially uniface; the reverse is unprinted, showing only the aged cream-coloured paper stock with visible fold lines and natural paper texture, with faint bleed-through of the obverse impression visible in places. |
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The Wäxel-, Depositions- och Låne-Banken was established in Helsinki in 1811, just two years after Finland became a Russian Grand Duchy, and operated as the principal note-issuing institution before the Bank of Finland absorbed its functions in 1840 — which marks the terminus of this series. Notes were denominated in Russian silver kopecks rather than the riksdaler or ruble, a deliberate policy choice that anchored Finnish paper money to the imperial monetary system while the bank retained Swedish-language administration.
The seventeen-year issue window for this denomination likely reflects periodic reissues from the same plates rather than continuous new production.