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2 Roubles
| Issuer | Finnish Bank (Suomen Pankki / Finlands Bank) |
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| Year | 1828 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Blue and black letterpress note with a double-headed imperial eagle vignette at top centre. Multilingual text panel below carries the denomination and issuing authority in Russian, Swedish, and Finnish. Rectangular framed boxes flank the central text block, with serial number at upper left. |
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| Reverse description | Showing as the back of the note, this image is the reverse side as seen through the paper, with show-through of the obverse double-headed eagle vignette and text visible in mirror image. The reverse itself carries no printed design, consistent with a blank reverse. |
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Finland's currency situation in the early nineteenth century was genuinely peculiar. After Sweden ceded Finland to Russia in 1809, the Grand Duchy retained the Swedish riksdaler system briefly before transitioning to the Russian rouble as the official unit of account — yet the Finnish Bank, re-established in 1811 under Russian imperial sanction, issued its own notes denominated in roubles rather than adopting Russian State Assignats directly. This note dates from a period when Suomen Pankki was still finding its footing as an institution, operating under tight imperial oversight while serving a population that remained largely skeptical of paper instruments.
The 1828 series predates the formal introduction of the markka by over three decades.