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Auction: 322 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 409

Czechoslovakia. Theresienstadt (Terezen). Ghetto. Complete Set of Camp Currency -- 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 Kronen. Campbell 4111-4117, Feller CZ 650-656, S&B 701-707. Vignette of Moses holding the Ten Commandments. Part of a chilling sham by the Nazi propaganda machine to present a "model camp" in Theresienstadt for Red Cross inspection, these notes were designed in 1942 by inmate Peter Kien, a Czech artist and poet, who later died at Auschwitz in 1944. All Crisp Uncirculated. [7]

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