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10 Roubles Lottery Bond, 1951
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the USSR |
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| Year | 1951 |
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| Value | 10 Roubles |
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| Reverse description | Plain white reverse printed in black letterpress, bearing the full terms and conditions of the state loan in ten numbered clauses. A lottery prize table occupies the right half of the text, detailing winning amounts across draw series. The imprint ГОЗНАК. 1951. appears centred at the foot of the page. |
| Reverse lettering | УСЛОВИЯ ВЫПУСКА ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО ЗАЙМА РАЗВИТИЯ НАРОДНОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА СССР (выпуск 1951 года) Гознак. 1951. (Translation: Conditions for issue of the state loan for the development of the national economy of the USSR (issue of 1951) Goznak. 1951.) |
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Soviet lottery bonds occupied an uncomfortable space between savings instrument and compulsory contribution. From the late 1920s onward, workers were routinely expected — through workplace pressure rather than legal mandate — to subscribe to state bond drives, with deductions taken directly from wages. The 1951 series continued this practice during the final years of Stalin's postwar reconstruction campaigns, when bond subscriptions were used to offset the costs of industrialization without printing currency outright.
Goznak's Moscow facility produced these on intaglio-printed security paper to the same technical standards as currency. Winning bond numbers were drawn in periodic lotteries; non-winners could be redeemed at face value after a set term — though chronic delays in redemption were well documented by the mid-1950s.