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Bon pentru Casa Scanteii - 200 lei
| Issuer | Casa Scânteii |
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| Year | 1949-1950 |
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| Size | 122 x 86 mm |
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| Obverse description | Green-tinted voucher on cream paper with a background vignette of industrial and architectural scenes including derricks and buildings, flanked by a group of figures reading newspapers. A circular PMR stamp appears at right, with series letter and serial number in black at upper area. Central denomination in large bold numerals flanked by 'LEI' on both sides, with 'Casa Scânteii' in cursive script below. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted plain paper reverse. |
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Casa Scânteii — "House of the Spark" — was the vast Stalinist press complex built in Bucharest beginning in 1949, modeled closely on Moscow's Lomonosov University. These bons were internal scrip issued for use within the facility's canteen and provisioning system, a common Soviet-bloc practice for large state enterprises during the early collectivization period when central wage distribution and in-kind benefits ran parallel to cash pay.
Not a banknote in any formal sense. Treated by Romanian collectors more as fiscal ephemera than currency proper, which means survival rates are genuinely low — institutional scrip was discarded, not saved.