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100 Roubles Lottery Bond, 1952
| Issuer | USSR Ministry of Finance |
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| Year | 1952 |
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| Currency | Fifth Rouble (1947-1960) |
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| Obverse lettering | СЕРИЯ ОБЛИГАЦИЯ № 124530 № 10 ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ЗАЕМ РАЗВИТИЯ НАРОДНОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА СССР ВЫПУСК 1952 ГОДА 100 Разряд 224 ОБЛИГАЦИЯ НА СУММУ СТО РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: Series Bond No. 124530 No. 10 State loan for the development of the national economy of the USSR Issue of 1952 100 Category 224 Bond in the amount of one hundred roubles) |
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| Protection description | Lattice watermark with repeated "СССР" text across the note. |
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Soviet lottery bonds occupied an awkward space between forced savings instrument and genuine state debt. From the late 1930s onward, workers were routinely expected to subscribe to these bond campaigns as a matter of workplace obligation — refusal was possible in principle, rarely in practice. The 1952 series fell during Stalin's final years, a period when the state was simultaneously pressing citizens to fund postwar reconstruction while suppressing consumption to rebuild industrial capacity.
Winners were determined by periodic drawings; non-winning bonds earned no interest and were redeemable at face value only at maturity, years later. Goznak's watermarked paper gave the instrument a credible monetary feel, which was precisely the point.