50 Kopecks, Collection Lottery Ticket

This copy

Accession

OM-00231

Serial

Б 173766

Series year

1930

Actually issued

1930

Signatures

This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.

Grade

F (IBNS)

Creased, edge wear. 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

$3 indicative

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

Dimensions

181.4 × 122.8 mm (±9.4, from the scan)

The type

Type

50 Kopecks, Collection Lottery Ticket

Printer

Not established

Rarity

common

Inscriptions

Obverse — the issue

Квиток

Ticket

Symbology

Industrial panorama

Construction sites, cranes and a locomotive across the whole face: the ticket sells the first Five-Year Plan as much as a chance of a prize.

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 50 Kopecks, Collection Lottery Ticket in the collection.