Old Money Registry

Types / 1928

Gudok Newspaper Lottery Ticket, 1928

Большая безплатная лотерея газеты «Гудок»

common

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.

2 copies in the collection