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POLAND: LODZ: Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 5 mark, 1943, PCGS MS62

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POLAND: LODZ: Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 5 mark, 1943, PCGS MS62
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POLAND: LODZ: Litzmannstadt Ghetto, 5 mark, 1943, KM-Tn2, struck in aluminum, one-year type, in a remarkable state of preservation, PCGS graded MS62. The ghetto was established as an industrial base to manufacture war supplies. The Nazis set up a Jewish council and appointed Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski to keep order. From 1942 to 1943, tokens were struck in the name of the Jewish Elders of Litzmannstadt, the name the Germans chose for the city to honor the German General Karl Litzmann, of WWI fame. These tokens were the only legal currency in the Lodz Ghetto, requiring the Jewish captives to trade personal possessions in exchange for the tokens. They then were used to buy what little food and medicine available to the ghetto. This item was originally produced by a regime which perpetrated crimes against humanity, war crimes, mass murder, and other acts of violence. Our firm does not endorse such activities and only offers this item as an artifact of history to further research and civil enlightenment.