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HUNGARY: AE token (2.08g), VF-XF

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / World Coins - Europe Start Price:300.00 USD Estimated At:350.00 - 400.00 USD
HUNGARY: AE token (2.08g), VF-XF
SOLD
1,600.00USD+ buyer's premium (320.00)
This item SOLD at 2024 Jun 14 @ 10:39UTC-07:00 : PDT/MST
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HUNGARY: AE token (2.08g), inscribed ORTH. IZR. HITKÖZSÉG / KOLOZSVÁR, which is Hungarian for "Cluj, Orthodox Jewish Religious Community", and gabella in Yiddish in the center, which stands for "tax", with just the number 6 on the reverse (meaning of "6" unknown); round with four small knots, VF-XF, RRR. Kolozsvar is now the Romanian city of Cluj (old Klausenburg), still in Hungary prior to World War I. Kolozsvar was the last city that Hitler declared for invasion, fearful of Hungarian opposition to German advance. This took place in March 1944. In April 1944, the entire Jewish population of about 16,000 were moved to a ghetto, and by early May were transferred to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, where the great majority were murdered in the gas chambers or died of disease or starvation. About 1,000 Jews did survive and many returned to Cluj after Auschwitz was liberated by the Russians in January 1945.