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| Issuer | NAVROM (Navigation Română), Constanța |
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| Year | 1970 |
| Type | Exchange certificates |
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| Protection type | Repeated text underprint |
| Protection description | Reverse covered entirely with repeated cursive "Tichet NAVROM" text pattern as a security underprint |
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NAVROM — Navigația Română — was Romania's state shipping company, operating out of Constanța on the Black Sea. Like many large socialist enterprises, it issued its own scrip for use within its facilities: canteens, workers' stores, and onboard vessels where standard lei were impractical to administer. These transport company tokens in paper form occupy a narrow category that sits awkwardly between currency and coupon, and they rarely survived outside the pockets of the workers who spent them.
The repeated-text underprint was a low-cost internal security measure, common to Romanian enterprise scrip of this period, intended to deter photocopying rather than professional counterfeiting.