1 Mark Łódź Ghetto
Features
| Location |
Poland
 |
|---|---|
| Period |
General Government (1939-1944)
|
| Type | Confinement vouchers |
| Year | 1940 |
| Value | 1 Mark |
| Currency | Reichsmark (1939-1944) |
| Composition | Paper |
| Shape | Rectangular |
| Number | N# 223777 |
| References | Camb# 4202 Lance K. Campbell; 1993. Prisoner-of-War and Concentration Camp Money of the Twentieth Century (2nd Edition). BNR Press, Port Clinton, Ohio, United States. |
Obverse
Offwhite paper scrip printed in green ink with black text. The face has a background latticework pattern. The denomination 1 is in the lower right corner in bold font. There is a 1 inch right margin, then a rectangle with a border of barbed wire interspersed with Stars of David. The inside has a background of interlocked Jewish stars with a large star in a circle in the upper left corner and a smaller one in the center of the right side border. Across the center is the denomination and other German text. The serial number in red ink replaces the upper right border. Signature of Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski.
Lettering:
Quittung
über
Eine Mark
Der Aelteste der Juden
in Litzmannstadt
M. Rumkowski
Litzmannstadt, den 15 Mai 1940.
Translation:
Receipt for one mark
The Elder of the Jews in Litzmannstadt
Reverse
The back has a blank background with the denomination 1 in bold font in the lower left corner. There is a 1 inch left margin, then a rectangle with a border of barbed wire interspersed with Stars of David. The inside has 2 sets of 8 concentric rings with the numerical denomination in the center. A banner with the textual denomination connects the rings. The banner crosses over a 7-branched candelabrum in the center, with German text above and below.
Lettering:
Quittung über
Eine Mark
Wer diese quittung verfälscht oder nachmacht oder gefälfchte quittungen in verkehr bringt wird strengstens bestraft.
Translation:
Receipt for one mark
Anyone who falsifies or copies this receipt, or traffics in counterfeit receipts, will be strictly punished
Watermark
© GNDM
Comments
Described in the catalog: Miłczak L2b
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| Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | Frequency | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Undetermined | |||||||||||||||
| 1940-May-15 | $ 130 | Campbell 4202a: 6 digit serial No. | 88% | ||||||||||||
| 1940-May-15 | Campbell 4202b: 7 digit serial No. | 0% | |||||||||||||
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