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100 Roubles Lottery Bond, 1946
| Issuer | USSR Ministry of Finance |
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| Year | 1946 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Intricate green guilloche border frames the entire face. The USSR State Coat of Arms is centred at the top, flanked by ornate scrollwork. The denomination "СТО РУБЛЕЙ" (One Hundred Roubles) appears in large red intaglio script at centre, with serial numbers and bond title in Cyrillic above; the bond title is repeated in all fifteen Soviet languages in small letterpress text below. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed entirely in black letterpress on plain paper. The full terms and conditions of the State Loan are set out in dense Cyrillic text to the left, with a structured prize table in tabular form to the right. The Goznak imprint and year 1946 appear at the foot. |
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The 1946 lottery bonds were part of a postwar state loan program through which the Soviet government effectively compelled citizens to "invest" in reconstruction — wage deductions were common practice, and refusal carried obvious social and professional risks. These were not voluntary instruments in any meaningful sense. The lottery mechanism dressed up obligatory lending as a chance at a prize, cycling repayments through draws rather than fixed interest schedules.
Goznak's Moscow facility had printed under wartime conditions since 1941; by 1946 it was back to full civilian production capacity, and the finish quality on these bonds is noticeably cleaner than the emergency-era paper issues.