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5 Mark Jewish Ghetto Coinage Al-Mg
| Issuer | Der Älteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt (Council of Elders of the Jews in Litzmannstadt) |
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| Year | 1943 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse description | A large Star of David dominates the field, centrally positioned and boldly incuse against the coin's surface. Within the lower portion of the star, the inscription GETTO appears in block capital letters arranged in a rectangular cartouche, with the date 1943 directly below. A finely beaded inner border encircles the design, set within a plain raised rim. The overall composition is stark and utilitarian, reflecting the emergency token coinage of the Łódź Ghetto. |
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| Mintage | 1943 |
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The Łódź Ghetto — renamed Litzmannstadt by the Nazi occupation — was sealed in April 1940 and became the second largest ghetto in occupied Poland. Its internal scrip currency was explicitly designed to prevent residents from accumulating any exchangeable wealth; coins and notes were issued by the Jewish Council under German orders and were redeemable only within the ghetto itself, for rations that were themselves controlled by the occupation administration. The 1943 dating places this piece late in the ghetto's existence, by which point mass deportations to Chełmno had already reduced the population from over 160,000 to roughly 80,000.
The aluminium-magnesium alloy was a wartime substitution — strategic metals were reserved for the Reich.