| Obverse description |
Horizontally formatted three-part CEC deposit slip (Form 201), printed in black on cream paper with a green guilloche underprint on the central and right sections. The document is divided into three numbered columns (I, II, III): the leftmost is the registration document (Document de înregistrare), the central section carries the deposit notice (Aviz despre), and the rightmost bears the receipt proper (Buletin de Vărsământ / Recipisa de). Each section contains ruled lines for amount in Lei and bani, depositor name, circular seal impression areas, and a pre-printed sample name and address (Ing. Ion Hossu, Str. Berthelot 36, București II) with serial number 12293. A detached rightmost panel carries postal tax and clearing exemption notices. |
| Obverse lettering |
Nr. de Înreg.: / Trimiteți la CEC și / Document de înregistrare / Lei / b. / Depuși de / pentru / Lei / B. / Ing. Ion Hossu / București II / 12293 / Form. 201. / 16 / 12293 / Aviz despre / Lei / b. / Depuși de / Data / 194 / pentru / Ing. Ion Hossu / Str. Berthelot, 36 / București II / 12293 / 8/II / Conti CEC - București / 16 / 12293 / Buletin de Vărsământ / Recipisa de / Lei / b. / Lei (in litere) / Semnătura funcționarului, / pentru / Ing. Ion Hossu / Str. Berthelot, 36 / București II / 12293 / 8/II / Taxa postală plătită / Lei / Sunt scutiți de această taxă, titularii de conturi cari fac operațiuni prin viramente (clearing) / M. O., Imprimeria Națională. |
Casa de Economii și Consemnațiuni was established in 1864 as Romania's state savings institution, and these deposit bulletins functioned as bearer instruments for CEC account transactions rather than circulating currency in the conventional sense — they occupy an ambiguous space between banknote and financial document that makes them genuinely awkward to classify. The 1940s decade was brutal for Romanian monetary stability: the country passed through wartime alliance with the Axis, Soviet occupation, and the 1947 leu reform that wiped out savings held in the old currency at punishing conversion rates.
Imprimeria Națională had printed state financial documents continuously since the nineteenth century, and its Bucharest output during the war years was complicated by paper shortages and shifting political oversight.