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Bon pentru Casa Scanteii - 300 lei
| Issuer | Partidul Muncitoresc Român (Romanian Workers' Party) |
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| Year | 1949-1950 |
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| Value | 300 Lei |
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| Obverse description | Orange-tinted bond on plain paper with a socialist-realist underprint vignette at right showing workers and a building scene. The denomination LEI 300 LEI is set in bold letterpress at centre-left, below which the written value 'trei sute' and the inscription 'pentru Casa Scânteii' appear in script lettering. A PMR laurel-wreath emblem with hammer-and-sickle is printed at centre-right, with serial number and 'Seria C' at upper field, and 'Depus de' at lower left for the contributor's name. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse with no text, vignettes, or security features. |
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Casa Scânteii — "House of the Spark" — was the massive Stalinist-era press complex built in Bucharest beginning in 1949 to centralize all state publishing under Party control. These bons were internal scrip issued by the Romanian Workers' Party for use within the construction site, almost certainly to pay or feed workers involved in building the complex itself. That makes this a piece of the project's own material history.
Industrial scrip of this specificity rarely survives. Most was redeemed, spent, or discarded on-site.