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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Wehwalt, post: 2211890, member: 33595&quot;][ATTACH=full]432226[/ATTACH]</p><p>This is about two inches square.&nbsp; It is from the same flea market in Helsinki and at first I passed it by.&nbsp; It is uniface, and usually in Scandinavia that means an award medal, usually from a sports competition, and those don&#039;t interest me.&nbsp; I went back when I realized that it was intended as an imitation of Swedish plate money.&nbsp; Finnish numismatic history is tied closely to Swedish and also Russian, and the Finnish National Museum had a large display of plate money (see example below, photographed at the museum). The inscription says &quot;Helsinki Savings Bank&quot; in Finland&#039;s two official languages, Finnish and Swedish.[ATTACH=full]432227[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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