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Oranienburg concentration camp scrip, 50 pfennig note

Object | Accession Number: 1990.75.4

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Oranienburg concentration camp scrip, 50 pfennig note

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Oranienburg concentration camp scrip, 50 pfennig note

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Geography: issue : Oranienburg (Concentration camp); Oranienburg (Germany)
Language: German
Classification: Exchange Media
Category: Money
Object Type: Scrip (aat)
Credit Line: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Evelyn Cohen

Physical Description: Paper scrip with a black background and a white graphic design featuring 2 armed, uniformed guards on each side with a right facing Imperial eagle with outstretched wings holding a swastika in its talons in the center. A length of barbed wire extends from each side of the swastika. The denomination 50 pfg is in each lower corner and there is fraktur text in the center below the eagle. The images are enclosed in a white outlined rectangle divided into 5 sections and there is an ornate scalloped border around the edge of the scrip. The scrip is crumpled.
Dimensions: overall : 3.500 x 5.875 in. (8.89 x 14.923 cm.)
Materials: overall : paper, ink
Markings: front, white letters on black background : Lagergeld / des / konzentrationslagers / ORANIENBURG / 50pfg / 50pfg
back, white letters on black background : Lagergeld / des / konzentrationslagers / ORANIENBURG / 50pfg / 50pfg
Topical Term: Concentration camps--Germany--Oranienburg--Currency.
World War, 1939-1945--Prisoners and prisons, German.
Geographic Name: Germany--History--1933-1945--Currency.
Corporate Name: Oranienburg (Concentration camp)--Economic aspects.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Provenance: The scrip was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Evelyn Cohen in 1990.
Conditions on Access: No restrictions on access
Conditions on Use: No restrictions on use
: Record last modified: 2018-01-11 14:23:42
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn4094

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