Catalog
LOTERIE PENTRU CONSTRUIREA UNUI LOCAL AL LIGEI
| Issuer | Liga pentru Unitatea Culturală a Tuturor Românilor |
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| Year | 1911 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the heading of the Liga pentru Unitatea Culturală a Tuturor Românilor, identifying the issuing cultural organization. Below, a letterpress inscription announces the lottery for the construction of the League's premises, authorized by the Ministry of the Interior under Order No. 31,141. The text further specifies 733 prizes totalling 65,000 lei, with two draws. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse carries the designation Bilet Suvenir, identifying this as a souvenir ticket. An inscription records the draw dates of 16 May 1911 and 21 November 1911, with a further notation that 600,000 tickets were issued in total. |
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The Liga pentru Unitatea Culturală a Tuturor Românilor — the League for the Cultural Unity of All Romanians — was a Bucharest-based irredentist organization founded in 1890, dedicated to the cultural and eventual political integration of Romanian populations living under Austro-Hungarian rule in Transylvania, Bukovina, and elsewhere. This lottery ticket was issued in 1911 to fund the construction of a dedicated headquarters, a building the League badly needed as its activities expanded in the years before the First World War upended the entire project of Romanian unification.
The engraver credit reading "Liga pentru unitatea culturală" almost certainly indicates in-house or locally arranged production rather than a dedicated printing firm.