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25 Markkaa
| Issuer | Vaasa Osake Pankki (Wasa Aktie Bank) |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Currency | Markka (1860-1963) |
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| Obverse lettering | WASA AKTIE BANK BETALAR MOT DENNA KONTOKURANTRÄKNINGS-CHECK TILL FINSKA STATSVERKET ELLER ORDER TJUGUFEM MARK i FINSKT MYNT Emottages utan statsverkets endosso af landets privatbanker (Translation: Wasa Aktie Bank will pay against this current account cheque to the Finnish State Treasury or order Twenty-Five Marks in Finnish coin [Small text sideways on the right] Accepted without the State Treasury's endorsement by the country's private banks) |
| Reverse description | Brown on tan guilloche underprint, with all text rendered in Finnish, mirroring the obverse layout. The bank title VAASAN OSAKE PANKKI heads the note, with the denomination numeral 25 at centre within the same scrollwork guilloche vignette and the written denomination KAKSIKYMMENTÄVIISI in bold letterpress below. Two manuscript signatures appear at lower left, a serial number at lower right, and the date 1918 at bottom centre. |
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Vaasa Osake Pankki was one of several Finnish provincial banks that issued emergency currency during the 1918 Civil War, when the White-controlled north was effectively cut off from Helsinki and the State Treasury. This note circulated in territory held by the White Guard, giving it an explicitly political character — it was not a banking instrument in any conventional sense but a financing mechanism for one side of an active armed conflict.
The Vaasa series is among the scarcer Finnish Civil War local issues. Many were withdrawn and demonetized quickly once the Whites consolidated control and the State began reasserting monetary authority later that year.