v37_1600 - POLAND - GERMAN OCCUPATION - LODZ GHETTO 20 mark 1943 Lodz

POLAND - GERMAN OCCUPATION - LODZ GHETTO 20 mark 1943 Lodz AU

MONNAIES 37 (2009)
Starting price : 180.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
unsold lot

Type : 20 mark

Date: 1943

Mint name / Town : Lodz

Quantity minted : ---

Metal : aluminium

Diameter : 33,26 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 4,26 g.

Edge : lisse

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Des marques de manipulation et de petits chocs dans les champs. Sinon la monnaie conserve une grande partie de son brillant d’origine

Catalogue references :

KM20/Tn4

Obverse

Obverse legend : DER AELTESTE DER JUDEN/ . IN LITZMANNSTADT ..

Obverse description : Valeur faciale au centre traversée par un bandeau dans lequel est écrit QUITTUNG UBER.

Reverse

Reverse description : Dans un cercle ouvert formé de six petites étoiles de David séparées les unes des autres par deux traits parallèles, grande étoile de David ; en-dessous sur deux lignes GETTO/ 1943.

Historical background

POLAND - GERMAN OCCUPATION - LODZ GHETTO

(1940-1944)

An important industrial city in western Poland before the Second World War, Lodz was the first to house a ghetto established by the Nazis in April 1940 (six months before that of Warsaw) and was renamed "Litzmannstadt". Controlled by the German administration, the ghetto was run by the Jewish Council installed by the occupier and whose president, Chaïm Rumkowski, got caught up in the "game" of the simulacrum of power conceded by the occupier: his effigy appeared on the stamps and his signature on coins in circulation in the Jewish area. The ghetto was the last to close in August 1944.