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100 lei ND CEC bond
| Issuer | Casa de Economii și Consemnațiuni (CEC) |
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| Year | 1952-1965 |
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| Value | 100 Lei (100 ROL) |
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| Obverse description | Blue letterpress text and nominal value on a green guilloche underprint, enclosed within a blue border frame. The coat of arms of the Popular Republic of Romania appears at the top of the frame, with the denomination repeated on lateral margins. Serial and bond numbers are printed at the top and bottom of the frame. |
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| Protection description | Rhombuses |
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CEC, Romania's state savings institution, issued these bonds as part of the forced savings infrastructure of the early Communist period — a mechanism through which citizens could nominally "deposit" money that the state then recycled into industrial financing. The bonds were not freely redeemable on demand; withdrawal terms were dictated by the state, and the distinction between voluntary saving and coerced contribution was often academic.
The 1952 monetary reform had just slashed the value of privately held cash with brutal exchange-rate penalties against larger holdings, making CEC instruments the prescribed — and heavily promoted — vehicle for what remained. This note sits within that immediate post-reform decade.