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10 Markkaa, Litt A-C
| Issuer | Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 10 Markkaa |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI KYMMENEN MARKKAA FINLANDS BANK TIO MARK 1922 (Translation: Bank of Finland Ten Marks 1922) |
| Reverse description | Plain design in brown tones with the Finnish Lion coat of arms centred on the note, flanked by the numeral 10 on both the left and right sides. |
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The 1922 10 Markkaa was printed domestically at a moment when Finland was still building the institutional infrastructure of an independent state — the country had only separated from Russia in 1917. Printing at the Finnish Government Printing Office in Helsinki, rather than contracting abroad as many newly independent nations did, was a deliberate assertion of self-sufficiency, though the quality of early domestic runs was uneven and the series required multiple lithographic corrections, hence the Litt A through C suffix variants.
The suffix designations track those plate revisions, not separate issue dates. Collectors conflating the three as a single type routinely undervalue the scarcer Litt C.