10 Roubles

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and few examples survived the eventual conversion period when rouble-denominated Finnish notes were systematically withdrawn.