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50 Pfennig Bonifatius Series
| Issuer | Stadtrat Ohrdruf (City Council of Ohrdruf, Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | NOTGELD DER STADT OHRDRUF 50 PFENNIG ZUM GEDÄCHTNIS AN DIE GRUENDUNG DER STADT OHRDRUF DURCH BONIFATIUS i.J. 724 GÜLTIG BIS 31. DEZEMBER 1921 OHRDRUF / DEN 1. SEPTEMBER 1921 DER STADTRAT: |
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| Reverse lettering | VERBVM DOMINI MANET IN AETERNVM 50 PF ANSICHT DER STADT OHRDRUF MIT EINER AUS/SICHT AUF DEN THÜRINGISCHEN CANDELABER 1813 |
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Ohrdruf's 1921 Pfennig notgeld belongs to the wave of municipal small-change currency that flooded Thuringia — and the rest of Germany — as metal coinage effectively vanished from circulation in the inflationary spiral following the war. The Bonifatius series specifically references the town's historical claim that St. Boniface, the Anglo-Saxon missionary who became the apostle of the Germans, founded a monastery at Ohrdruf in 725 AD, the earliest recorded Benedictine house on German soil.
A print run of over twelve million for a town of a few thousand residents is not unusual — these notes circulated far beyond their issuing municipality, collected and traded as a matter of course. Whether they actually cleared debts locally is another question entirely.