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Bon pentru Casa Scanteii - 1000 lei
| Issuer | Partidul Muncitoresc Român (Romanian Workers' Party) |
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| Year | 1949-1950 |
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| Size | 122 x 86 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Seria D LEI 1000 LEI (una mie) pentru Casa Scânteii Depus de (Translation: Series D / LEI 1000 LEI / (one thousand) / for / Casa Scânteii / Submitted by) |
| Reverse description | Plain white paper with no printed design; faint bleed-through impressions from the obverse are visible, along with light handling marks. The reverse is entirely unprinted. |
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Casa Scânteii — the massive Stalinist press complex built in Bucharest from 1950 onward — was funded partly through internal party mechanisms, including worker contribution schemes. These bons circulated within Romanian Workers' Party structures as internal scrip tied to the construction fund, not as public currency. The Romanian state was simultaneously pushing a monetary reform that had already gutted personal savings in 1947, so party-internal instruments like this occupied a legally ambiguous space entirely outside the National Bank's remit.
Few survived. Institutional scrip of this kind was typically surrendered, reconciled, and pulped once the associated project phase closed.