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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Ohrdruf (City of Ohrdruf) |
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| Year | 1919 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt Ohrdruf 50 Pfennig Einlösung seitens der Stadt Ohrdruf innerhalb eines Jahres nach der Ausgabe gewährleistet Ohrdruf, den 1. Juli 1919 Der Stadtrat No 05089 GEBR. PARCUS MÜNCHEN |
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| Reverse lettering | Notgeld der Stadt Ohrdruf 50 Pfennig 50 |
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Ohrdruf is a small Thuringian town with a history disproportionate to its size — it housed one of the first Nazi concentration camp subcamps liberated by American forces in April 1945, and Bach spent his formative years there. Neither fact touches this note, which belongs to the vast Notgeld wave of 1919, when municipal authorities across Germany stepped in to fill a chronic shortage of small-denomination coinage caused by wartime metal requisitioning and postwar hoarding.
Gebrüder Parcus in Munich printed Notgeld for dozens of municipalities during this period, working at considerable volume. Attribution to them is worth noting primarily because their output was generally more carefully produced than notes run off by local printers.