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100 Roubles Lottery Bond, 1955
| Issuer | USSR Ministry of Finance |
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| Year | 1955 |
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| Value | 100 Roubles |
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| Obverse description | Dark green intaglio-printed bond on fine guilloche underprint with dense lathe-work border. The USSR state coat of arms is centred at top, flanked by series and bond number fields. The denomination 100 appears in large numerals left and right, with the principal Cyrillic title and value text in the central panel. Multilingual text in smaller script runs below the main inscription. |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ЗАЕМ РАЗВИТИЯ НАРОДНОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА СССР (выпуск 1955 года) ОБЛИГАЦИЯ НА СУММУ СТО РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: STATE LOAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY OF THE USSR (1955 issue) BOND FOR THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED ROUBLES) |
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Soviet lottery bonds occupied an uncomfortable middle ground between forced savings and genuine investment. The 1955 series was part of the mass subscription campaigns that effectively functioned as compulsory state borrowing — workers were expected to purchase bonds equivalent to several weeks' wages, with repayment and prize draws stretched across decades. The 1955 issue came near the end of this system; Khrushchev suspended all Soviet bond repayments in 1957, freezing billions in citizen savings for a generation.
Goznak's Moscow facility printed the entire run, as it did for virtually all Soviet fiscal paper of the period. The 1957 moratorium was only partially lifted beginning in the 1970s, with final repayments dragging into the 1980s.