Gudok Newspaper Lottery Ticket, 1928

This copy

Accession

OM-00226

Series year

1928

Actually issued

1928

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

VF (IBNS)

Light wear, sound paper. Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.

Estimated value

$4 indicative

Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-09-07.

Dimensions

109.2 × 86.9 mm (±1.6, from the scan)

The type

Type

Gudok Newspaper Lottery Ticket, 1928

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — who may win

В розыгрыше участвуют только подписчики «Гудка»

Only subscribers to Gudok take part in the draw

Symbology

2400 prizes listed on the face

Four hundred sets of the collected classics, four hundred musical instruments, four hundred pieces of sporting equipment - the prize list doubles as a statement of what a Soviet citizen was supposed to want.

«Крепи подписку на издания твоего союза»

'Strengthen the subscription to your union's publications' - the lottery existed to sell newspaper subscriptions to railway workers.

What was happening

A Soviet lottery ticket, and effectively a piece of currency. Tickets were numbered, printed in the millions and hard to forge, so in years when small change was scarce they changed hands as money. They were also propaganda: the prizes are listed on the face and the illustration shows what the proceeds were meant to build.

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every Gudok Newspaper Lottery Ticket, 1928 in the collection.