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10 Pfennig Lodz Ghetto 1st emission
| Issuer | Der Älteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt (Jewish Elder of Lodz Ghetto) |
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| Year | 1942 |
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| Weight | 0.90 g |
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| Obverse description | Central device consisting of an ornate six-pointed Star of David, its interior decorated with a snowflake-like geometric pattern. Two crossed wheat or rye sheaves flank the star at the lower left and right, rendered in fine relief. The circular legend 'LITZMANNSTADT - GETTO' is inscribed along the upper periphery, with the date '1942' appearing at the lower rim flanked by small dots, all within a raised border. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The Lodz Ghetto scrip was ordered into existence by Hans Biebow, the German administrator who ran the ghetto as a forced-labor operation supplying the Wehrmacht with uniforms and munitions. Biebow's logic was simple: a closed internal currency prevented inmates from acquiring goods outside ghetto boundaries and made the entire population's meager wages a fiction — scrip redeemable only within walls he controlled.
Magnesium was chosen precisely because it had no salvage value and was virtually unknown in civilian coinage. The 1st emission pieces are notoriously fragile; magnesium corrodes aggressively in humid conditions, and fully intact examples are significantly harder to find than the aluminum-alloy issues that followed.