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Lot 1549: Set of Concentration Camp Money

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Lot 1549: Set of Concentration Camp Money
<b>Judaica</b><hr><b>German Concentration Camp Money</b>

<b>A Complete Set of January 1, 1943 Notes from the Concentration Camp at Theresienstadt (part of the former Czechoslovakia), all Gem Crisp Uncirculated.</b>
Includes a 1 Krone and 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 Kronen notes, each a different color, all featuring an engraved vignette of Moses holding the Ten Commandments on the obverse. Campbell Nos. 4111-4117, a complete set of all known denominations. Theresienstadt was established as a 'proposed model ghetto', to impress foreign visitors and the Red Cross. According to Campbell, Theresienstadt was nothing more than a transit point to the death camps in Poland. The denomination of these notes is meaningless, because a Krone(n) was not in use in either Germany or Czechoslovakia; therefore, the notes had value only within the confines of Theresienstadt. Each of these notes bears, on the reverse, a printed signature of Jakob Edelstein as 'Der Alteste der Juden' (Elder of the Jews). An historical reminder of one of the darkest times in the history of man. (7 notes)