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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Ohrdruf (City of Ohrdruf) |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 5/6#O16 |
| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld note printed in black with an orange guilloche border frame. The left panel carries a stylised ornamental vignette above and below the large numeral '25' with the denomination 'Pfennig' in Gothic blackletter script. To the right, the issuer heading 'Stadt Ohrdruf.' appears in bold Gothic type beneath a double rule, flanked by '25 Pfg.' on either side, with the text 'Gut für Fünfundzwanzig Pfg.' followed by the date 'Ohrdruf, den 1. Mai 1917.' A manuscript signature above the printed authority line 'Der Stadtrat:' and a four-digit serial number appear in the lower centre, with an oval official ink stamp overlaid near the centre of the note. |
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| Reverse lettering | Gültig nur in der Stadt Ohrdruf Stadt Ohrdruf. Gültig nur in der Stadt Ohrdruf 25 Pfg. 25 Pfg. Die Stadt Ohrdruf verpflichtet sich zur Einlösung innerhalb eines Jahres nach Friedensschluß. Diese Verpflichtung erlischt nach Ablauf eines weiteren Jahres. Fünfundzwanzig Pfennig |
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Ohrdruf's 1917 emergency issue belongs to the first wave of German municipal Kleingeldersatz — small-change substitutes printed by thousands of towns after coin hoarding stripped copper and nickel from everyday commerce. The imperial government had authorized local authorities to fill the gap, and they did so with spectacular unevenness in quality, design, and longevity.
Ohrdruf itself is a small Thuringian town, though one with an outsized historical footnote: it hosted what is now recognized as one of the earliest Nazi concentration camps, established in 1944. Nothing of that touches this note, but the town's obscurity makes surviving examples less documented than those from larger municipal issuers.
The DeNG reference places this in the Grabowski-Mehl catalog's Ohrdruf sequence, O16 within the 5/6 fascicle.