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| Issuer | Casa de Economii și Consemnațiuni (CEC) |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Printer | I.B.M. |
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| Reverse description | Plain cream paper reverse printed in red ink, carrying a left-hand table with columns headed "SCOPUL PLĂȚII" and "SUME", followed by a TOTAL row and fields for authorized signatures, identity document details, and a receipt section marked "ACHITAT / Casier". A ruled box on the right is reserved for "Loc pentru comunicări către titular". |
| Reverse lettering | SCOPUL PLĂȚII SUME TOTAL Semnăturile autorizate ale emitentului 1) L. S. 2) Buletin de identitate seria nr. eliberat de la data de Verificat identitatea, Controler de ghișeu Am primit suma de lei adică data Semnătura ACHITAT Casier, L. S. Loc pentru comunicări către titular: |
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Casa de Economii și Consemnațiuni was Romania's state savings institution, operating under tight central control throughout the communist period. In the chaotic months following the December 1989 revolution, CEC faced an immediate liquidity crisis — citizens rushed to withdraw savings they had long distrusted the state with, and the institution scrambled to manage demand with whatever instruments it could produce domestically.
Printed by I.B.M. (Imprimeria Băncii de Stat, Romania's state printing works in Bucharest), this registration document is a transitional artifact of that moment — not currency, but a quasi-financial instrument issued when procedural infrastructure had partially collapsed and formal banking documentation could not keep pace with events on the ground.