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100 Roubles Lottery Bond, 1953
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the USSR |
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| Year | 1953 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette shows an intaglio-printed panoramic scene of Soviet industrial achievements: a Stalinist skyscraper at left, a hydroelectric dam at centre, and factory chimneys at right. The USSR State Emblem tops the design flanked by series and bond numbers in red letterpress. Denomination СТО РУБЛЕЙ is printed in bold Cyrillic below the vignette, with multilingual loan terms in small text across the lower register. |
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| Reverse description | Plain off-white surface printed entirely in letterpress with ten numbered clauses detailing the terms and conditions of the State Loan for Development of the National Economy of the USSR (1953 issue), including lottery draw schedules, prize amounts, and redemption dates. A two-column prize table occupies the right half. The Goznak imprint and year appear at foot centre. |
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Stalin died in March 1953, the same year this bond was issued — a coincidence that makes the series historically pointed. Soviet lottery bonds were not voluntary investments in any meaningful sense; workplace pressure and brigade quotas made purchase effectively compulsory for most workers. The state collected the principal interest-free, paid out a fraction through periodic prize draws, and redeemed the remainder at face value decades later, often after inflation had gutted the real return.
Goznak had printed state lottery bonds continuously since the 1920s. The 1953 series was among the last issued under the old Stalinist financial apparatus before Khrushchev's government suspended compulsory bond campaigns in 1957 and then cancelled outstanding issues outright in 1957–58 — freezing redemptions for twenty years.