Seven coins used as currency in the Lodz Ghetto. Poland, 1942-1943.
1. Coin, denomination 10 Pfennig, aluminum-magnesium, 1942.
Obverse: denomination – the digit "10", legend "Der Aeltete der Juden" and a Star of David bordered by two oak tree leaves. Reverse: legend "Litzmannstadt Getto 1942" with a Star of David in the center, decorated with corn cobs.
This coin is of a model minted in Lodz Ghetto but it was archived due to the resentment of the Ghetto commander on behalf of the Nazi regime, Hans Biebow who ordered Haim Rumkowsky to remove the oak leaves and corn cobs from the coin and change the design of the digit "10" to differentiate it from the design embossed on German coins.
2. Coin, denomination: 10 Pfennig, aluminum-magnesium, 1942.
Obverse: denomination – the digit "10" and the legend "Der Aelteste der Juden". Reverse: the legend "Litzmannstadt Getto 1942" with a Star of David in the center.
3-7. Five coins of the year 1943: coin, denomination 20 Mark, aluminum; coin, denomination 10 Mark, aluminum; coin, denomination 10 Mark, aluminum-magnesium; coin, denomination 5 Mark, aluminum; coin, denomination 5 Mark, aluminum-magnesium.
Obverse: denomination, legend across the coin "Ordnung Uber" and on the circumference the legend "Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt". Reverse: relief of a Star of David, the word "Getto" and the year 1943.
Total of seven coins. Size and condition vary.