50 Pfennig Bonifatius Series

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.