Scrip

Object | Accession Number: 1998.62.19

Date: 1942 August 01
Language: German
Classification: Exchange Media
Category: Money
Object Type: Scrip (aat)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Jerry Jacobs

Physical Description: red and green ink on white paper; recto: upper left corner, serial number, "J 6456810"; lower left corner, "5" and Nazi German National Symbol with text, "DER PRAESIDENT DER DEUTSCHEN REICHSBANK"; center, "Reichsbanknote/Fuenf/Reichsmark/Ausgegeben auf Grund des Gesetzes ueber/die Deutsche Reichsbank von 15. Juni 1939/Berlin, den 1. August 1942/Der Praesident/der Deutschen Reichsbank/[signature]"; right side, image of young man [bust]; lower right, serial number, "J 6456810"; verso: depiction of cathedral and monument, flanked by depiction of female peasant with sickle and grain [left] and male peasant with board and tool [right]; upper edge, "5 Reichsmark 5"; lower edge, "5 Reichsbanknote 5/[partially legible text:] WER BANKNOTEN NACHMACHT ODER VERFAELSCHT ..."
Dimensions: overall: Height: 2.750 inches (6.985 cm) | Width: 5.500 inches (13.97 cm)
Materials: overall : paper, ink
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998 by Jerry Jacobs.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
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