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Buletin de vărsământ CEC
| Issuer | Casa de Economii și Consemnațiuni (CEC) |
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| Year | 1940-1949 |
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| Currency | Second leu (1947-1952) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse panel carries promotional and instructional text for the CEC savings account service, printed in black on cream paper without any guilloche or decorative underprint. The upper portion poses the question 'Dacă aveți remiteri și încasări' followed by a bold imperative heading 'DESCHIDEȚI UN CONT DE CEC'. Below, a block of text enumerates the service guarantees — RAPIDITATE, EXACTITATE — and the promise of reduced fees (REDUCE SIMȚITOR SPEZELE Dvs.). The lower section instructs the depositor to complete all three parts of the bulletin clearly (Completați CLAR cele 3 părți ale buletinului). |
| Reverse lettering | Dacă aveți remiteri și încasări / DESCHIDEȚI UN CONT DE CEC / Serviciul de Cecuri vă garantează: / RAPIDITATE, / EXACTITATE și / vă REDUCE SIMȚITOR SPEZELE Dvs. / Completați CLAR cele 3 părți ale buletinului. |
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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.