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100 Roubles Lottery Bond, 1956
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the USSR |
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| Year | 1956 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse lettering | ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ЗАЕМ РАЗВИТИЯ НАРОДНОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА СССР (выпуск 1956 года), ОБЛИГАЦИЯ НА СУММУ СТО РУБЛЕЙ Разряд 034 (Translation: State loan for the development of the national economy of the USSR (1956 issue), bond for the sum of one hundred rubles, category 034) |
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| Reverse lettering | УСЛОВИЯ ВЫПУСКА ГОСУДАРСТВЕННОГО ЗАЙМА РАЗВИТИЯ НАРОДНОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА СССР (выпуск 1956 года) Гознак. 1956. (Translation: Conditions for issue of the state loan for the development of the national economy of the USSR (issue of 1956) Goznak. 1956.) |
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These 1956 lottery bonds were part of the USSR's postwar "voluntary" subscription drives — a mechanism through which the state effectively extracted savings from workers who understood that refusing to participate carried professional consequences. The 1956 issue came amid Khrushchev's de-Stalinization push, and just two years later the Soviet government suspended all lottery bond redemptions entirely, freezing billions of roubles in citizen holdings. That moratorium lasted until 1974.
Goznak printed these to a high security standard regardless of their coercive origins — the same Moscow facility responsible for currency production. The perforated coupon strip along one edge was detached at each lottery draw, making intact examples with all coupons present genuinely harder to find than the bonds themselves suggest.