Bon pentru Casa Scanteii - 100 lei

Casa Scânteii — "House of the Spark," named after the Soviet Communist Party newspaper Iskra — was the enormous Stalinist-era press complex under construction in northern Bucharest from 1949 to 1956. These bons were internal scrip issued to construction workers on the site, a common Soviet-bloc practice of paying labor partly in vouchers redeemable only at designated enterprise canteens and shops, effectively tying workers' purchasing power to the state project itself.

The timing places this squarely within Romania's first full year of Soviet-modeled economic restructuring following the abolition of the monarchy and the leu's 1947 currency reform, which had already wiped out private savings.