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25 Roubles Government Lottery Bond, 1982
| Issuer | Ministry of Finance of the USSR |
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| Year | 1982-1991 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Central text panel bearing the title inscription «Государственный внутренний выигрышный заём» at top centre, with date «1982 года» to the upper right. The main body carries the denomination legend «Облигация на сумму двадцать пять рублей» with «СССР» below, and numeral «25» at lower left. |
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| Reverse lettering | Двадцать пять рублей 25 25 (Translation: Twenty five rubles 25 25) |
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Soviet lottery bonds occupy an odd corner of monetary history — they were neither straightforward savings instruments nor conventional banknotes, but a compulsory quasi-investment that the state used to absorb surplus consumer cash in an economy chronically short of goods to buy. Workers were frequently pressured through their enterprises to purchase them, and the bonds circulated informally as a secondary currency in some regions, accepted between private parties at face value when rouble notes were scarce.
This 1982 series ran through 1991, when the dissolution of the USSR rendered redemption claims politically complicated. Goznak's Moscow facility printed the full run, the same plant responsible for Soviet currency production throughout the postwar decades.