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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Rothenburg ob der Tauber |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 1 Mark |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Mark Notgeld der Stadt Rothenburg o/Tauber No 48952 Rothenburg 24. Juni Der Stadtrat. 1921 |
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| Reverse lettering | 1 Mark Notgeld Die Liebe die Treue der Glaube das Recht die vier haben sich schlafen gelegt. Wenn die vier wieder aufersteh'n dann wird es recht in der Welt zugehn. Rothenburg o/T Einlösbar bei der Stadtkasse bis 31. Dezember 1921 |
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber's Stadtkasse was among hundreds of German municipal treasuries forced into emergency currency issuance during the inflationary spiral of the early Weimar period, when Reichsbank notes of small denomination effectively vanished from circulation through hoarding and commodity price acceleration. The 1921 series was locally administered but the printing quantity — over twelve million pieces — reflects just how acute the small-change shortage had become in even modestly sized Franconian towns.
Adolf Hosse was a Rothenburg-based artist closely associated with the town's medievalist identity, and his involvement gives this note an unusually coherent regional character rare among Notgeld of this volume.