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50 Pfennig Bonifatius Series
| Issuer | Stadtrat Ohrdruf (City Council of Ohrdruf, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | 31 December 1921 |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT OHRDRUF ZUM GEDÄCHTNIS AN DIE GRUENDUNG DER STADT OHRDRUF DURCH BONIFATIUS ½. 724 GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1921 OHRDRUF / DEN 1. SEPTEMBER 1921 DER STADTRAT: 50 PFENNIG |
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| Reverse lettering | IN DERSELBEN NACHT UMLEUCHTETE HIMMLISCHE KLARHEIT SEIN LAGER / UND ER WARD DER ZUSPRACHE DES ERZENGELS MICHAEL GEWÜRDIGT / WESHALB ER AUCH DIESE STÄTTE UND DIE KIRCHE DEM HEILIGEN ENGEL WEIHTE." ST. MICHAEL ERSCHEINT DEM BONIFATIUS NACHTS IM TRAUME 50 PFG |
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Ohrdruf's Bonifatius series takes its name from Saint Boniface, the Anglo-Saxon missionary who established a monastery at Ohrdruf in 724 AD — making it one of the oldest monastic sites in what is now Germany. The city leaned heavily into that association when designing its 1921 notgeld issues, a common municipal strategy during the Weimar inflation period when towns used emergency scrip as both a functional currency substitute and a local promotional vehicle.
A print run of over twelve million is substantial for a small Thuringian city, suggesting the series was produced partly for collector sale rather than pure transactional need — a practice that became widespread by 1921 and drew increasing criticism from the Reichsbank.