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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Ohrdruf (City of Ohrdruf, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is printed in dark brown and red on a rose-buff ground, with ornate Gothic interlace border panels flanking both sides. At centre, a large oval vignette enclosed by a pearl border presents the Ohrdruf municipal coat of arms — a helmeted figure above two allegorical female figures flanking a diamond-quartered shield — rendered in a detailed woodcut style. The denomination numeral '25' appears in bold red at upper left and right, with 'Pf.' below each, and the issuing legend 'Gut- schein der Stadt Ohrdruf' in blackletter script flanking the central vignette; the value in words 'Fünfundzwanzig Pfenige' is set in large blackletter type across the lower portion. The printer's imprint 'DRUCK: A. SCHWARZ · LINDENBERG · ALLGÄU.' appears in small roman type beneath the lower border. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is printed in dark brown and red on a matching rose-buff ground, with the same ornate Gothic interlace side panels repeated at left and right, each bearing the numeral '25' in red at the four corners. The upper register carries the heading 'Stadt Ohrdruf' in bold blackletter within a ruled panel. The central vignette presents a finely detailed letterpress view of the Ohrdruf town hall with its characteristic tower rising above the roofline, framed by foliage to the right. Flanking text panels carry the redemption clause in vertical blackletter reading 'DIESER·GUTSCHEIN WIRD·INNERHALB EINES·JAHRES·SEIT' at left and 'SEINER·AUSGABE VON·DEN·KASSEN DER·STADT·EINGELÖST.' at right; the date 'Ohrdruf, den 1. März 1921', a serial number, and the signature line 'Der Stadtrat:' with a manuscript signature appear at the foot. |
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Ohrdruf issued this note during the acute coin shortage that gripped Germany in the early 1920s, before hyperinflation rendered small denominations meaningless. Municipal Kleingeldersatz — substitute small change — was a legal stopgap authorized under wartime emergency provisions that German towns continued exploiting well into the Republic years. Hundreds of German municipalities did the same, but the printing market for these fractional notgeld was dominated by a handful of provincial printers.
A. Schwarz of Lindenberg im Allgäu was one of them — a southern German print house that supplied notgeld contracts to municipalities far outside its immediate region, a common arrangement when local printers lacked the capacity or equipment.