50 Pfennig Bonifatius Series

Ohrdruf issued this Notgeld series under a peculiar local conceit: the town's connection to Saint Boniface, who is traditionally associated with the area before his eighth-century mission into Germanic territories. By 1921, German municipal authorities had considerable latitude in choosing thematic imagery for emergency currency, and Ohrdruf leaned hard into hagiography. The print run of over twelve million pieces is substantial for a Thuringian market town — suggesting these were distributed well beyond local necessity, deliberately targeting the collector trade that had developed around Notgeld by mid-1921.

Specimens that saw genuine circulation are the minority.