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1 Rouble
| Issuer | Wäxel-, Depositions- och Lånebanken i Finland (Exchange, Deposit and Loan Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1823 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse description | Printed in black on plain paper, the note is laid out in a typographic letterpress style with the Imperial Russian double-headed eagle vignette at top centre serving as the principal heraldic device. The text body, rendered in three languages — Swedish, Finnish, and Russian — fills the note field with a formal declaration of deposit redeemable in Imperial Russian Bank Assignats. The overall design is austere and utilitarian, consistent with early nineteenth-century Finnish banking issues under Russian Imperial authority. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is unprinted, presenting a plain aged paper surface with no typographic or vignette elements, consistent with the minimalist production standards of early Finnish Rouble assignat issues. |
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The Wäxel-, Depositions- och Lånebanken i Finland was the first bank established in Finland after the territory passed from Swedish to Russian control in 1809, operating under the authority of the Russian Imperial administration rather than any Finnish governing body. Its notes circulated in a peculiar monetary environment: Finland retained the Swedish riksdaler as its unit of account for years before the rouble was imposed as the official currency, making early rouble-denominated issues like this one instruments of a deliberate monetary realignment rather than organic commercial tools.
By 1840 the bank had been reorganized into the Bank of Finland, and earlier notes were called in. Survivors from the 1823 series are genuinely uncommon.