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10 Roubles
| Issuer | Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki) |
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| Year | 1841-1857 |
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| Value | 10 Roubles (10 Рублей) |
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| Obverse description | Red guilloche underprint on white paper. Imperial Russian double-headed eagle vignette at top centre, flanked by ornate rosette corner pieces. The central text panel carries the denomination and promise-to-pay inscription in Russian, Swedish, and Finnish, surrounded by a rectangular guilloche border frame. |
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| Reverse description | Red guilloche underprint on white paper with an elaborate rectangular border of repeating wavy guilloche bands and rosette vignettes at each corner. The central white panel carries the promise-to-pay text in large blackletter script in Finnish — 'Suomen Pankki maksaa tästä Setelistä KYMMENEN Ruplaa hopiassa' — followed by anti-counterfeiting warning paragraphs in Swedish and Finnish referencing the Imperial Ordinance of November 1812. |
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Finland's monetary situation in the mid-nineteenth century was genuinely peculiar: the country was a Grand Duchy under the Russian Empire, and the Bank of Finland issued notes denominated in Russian roubles while operating under Finnish law. This note predates the introduction of the Finnish markka in 1860, which finally gave the duchy its own distinct monetary unit — a concession extracted partly through the persistent lobbying of Johan Vilhelm Snellman.
The series ran across a sixteen-year window but actual print runs were small, and few examples survived the eventual conversion period when rouble-denominated Finnish notes were systematically withdrawn.