Anti-Semitic note
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Gift of Ronnie Hamburger Burrows
Id no. 2002.A.43, Currency, German
The caption translates: The Priest Peter Daene sells the Jews the sacred host, 1492.

Cities, towns and enterprises printed emergency currency during the inflation of the 1920s. When Jews were blamed for economic problems, Notgeld incorporated anti-Semitic themes, images, and text.
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