Bought this recently and found it intriguing. Here's more information: http://suite101.com/article/holocaust-money-of-the-lodz-ghetto-a311179 When I picked up this coin, I thought it looks like it was in a fire. Maybe it was really used to generate some heat? Certain that this is a genuine coin.
The look is from their being made of magnesium - a flammable metal. The whole story of the ghetto in Lodz is very fascinating with very contrasting characters.
I`d really like to add this coin to my collection but there are a lot of fakes, and there are the original dies restrikes from sometime in 1950s. How can you be sure its authentic?
Ghetto and War camp money truly odd and has a lot copy's/Fakes to make more money off a bad thing. "History need not replete". Is that not what Ben Franklin said? .
I agree that this is a genuine one. Vast majority of later restrikes have fairly pristine surfaces from what I've seen. This one shows it's age as you would expect.
I just trusted the seller Taxidermist. Only reason why I bought this is because I wanted a coin to represent my coin element collection. It's only after buying the coin did I realise how much history it had behind it.
Hey, gxseries: Perhaps you know about these coins: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Worlds-Only...2997452?pt=US_World_Coins&hash=item3a82d36dcc They are "ceramic" coin made by the now defunct state of Manchoukuo. Do you collect these? What do you know about them?
