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Lot 2746 Session 9 (4.30pm Thursday) World Banknotes
Estimate $120
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SOLD $400
GERMANY-POLAND, Litzmannstadt Ghetto, fifty pfennig (2), one mark (2), twenty marks (2), Quittungen (Receipt notes), (Campbell No. 4201a, 4202b, 4206b). Good very fine - uncirculated, scarce. (6)
Ex Ceslovas Liutikas Collection. The Nazi leadership declared that it was illegal for residents of the ghetto to possess hard currency. Because of this edict, the residents were forced to exchange their German and Polish currency for quittungen (receipts) that were to function as currency. The notes were printed by the Manitius Printing house. The text on the face translated reads 'Receipt for (denomination), The Chief Elder of the Jews in Litzmannstadt, M. Rumkowski, Litzmannstadt, May 15, 1940,' The back states the denomination and give a warning against counterfeiting.
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