World Banknotes (A-I)
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Lot 2496 Session 8 (2.30pm Wednesday) World Banknotes (A-I)
Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $200
GERMANY-POLAND, Litzmannstadt Ghetto, fifty pfennig, one mark and twenty marks, Quittungen (Receipt notes), all notes numbered, (Campbell No. 4201a, 4202b, 4206 [1]). Good very fine - nearly uncirculated, scarce. (3)
Ex Sydney Levine 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 gives a warning against counterfeiting.
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