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Bon pentru Casa Scanteii - 50 lei
| Issuer | Casa Scânteii |
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| Year | 1949-1950 |
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| Value | 50 Lei |
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| Obverse description | Gray-toned voucher on cream paper with a socialist-realist underprint vignette of an industrial construction site and tower cranes at right, overlaid with a worker-and-child figural group at left. A Romanian communist state emblem appears at center-right, with series letter and serial number in the upper portion. The denomination numeral 50 is set in bold letterpress at center, with script lettering for the institution name below. |
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| Reverse description | Reverse entirely unprinted, plain cream-colored paper stock with no design elements, text, or security features, showing only age toning and handling marks consistent with the period. |
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Casa Scânteii — "House of the Spark" — was the vast Stalinist press complex built in Bucharest beginning in 1950, housing the Romanian Communist Party's main publishing operations. These internal bons were scrip, not legal tender: they circulated only within the facility's closed economy, likely redeemable at the workers' canteen or internal commissary. The timing places them squarely in Romania's early Sovietization period, when large state enterprises routinely issued their own auxiliary payment tokens as wage supplements or ration instruments.
The issuer's name itself is borrowed from Iskra — Lenin's newspaper — which tells you everything about the political atmosphere in which these notes were conceived.