Litzmannstadt 1942 10 pfennig

Heritage sale 3038, lot 36082

photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

This specimen was lot 36082 in Heritage sale 3038 (Dallas, January 2015), where it sold for $1,292.50. The catalog description^[1] noted, "Litzmannstadt magnesium 10 Pfennig Token 1942 AU. Issued for the Concentration Camp in Lodz, to replace the paper chits." Five, ten and twenty mark tokens also exist and are scarce. The ghetto was liquidated in 1944 and all its inhabitants sent to the death camps.

Recorded mintage: 100,000.

Specification: aluminum-magnesium.

Catalog reference: SB-1022, KM Tn5.

Source:

• Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 1901-2000, 47th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2019.
• ^[1]Bierrenbach, Cristiano, Warren Tucker and David Michaels, Heritage Signature Auction 3038, featuring the Empire, the Santa Catarina, the Law and the Santa Maria Collections, Dallas, TX: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2014.

Link to:

• Coins and currency dated 1942
• return to coins of Poland