Czechoslovakia, Getto Terezin, set of banknotes (6 pieces) 1943

The role of these banknotes is unclear; it is true that in 1943 they were printed to the amount of about 50 million crowns and were undoubtedly used to pay in the ghetto, but the circulation itself - compared to the banknotes in the Lodz ghetto - was relatively small; they were probably intended to serve the Germans for propaganda purposes, so that representatives of the Red Cross who announced their visit to the ghetto would see with their own eyes that the Jews were not being harmed - after all, they had their own bank and money; low denominations (from 1 crown to 10 crowns inclusive) are numbered A001, A002, etc.; no effort was taken to number individual pieces - the same series and number was used to mark a given number of banknotes; individual serial numbers were carried on 20, 50 and 100 crown bills; the same is true of watermarks; only the three highest denominations were printed on watermarked paper. An interesting set that has grown steadily more expensive each year.