50 Pfennig

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.