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1 Mark
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Rothenburg ob der Tauber |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 110 × 70 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is laid out in three vertical panels in the same brown, black, and grey-green colour scheme. The flanking panels each contain a seated allegorical figure — one holding a cross, the other with a book and key — surmounted by a cartouche inscribed '1 Mark – Notgeld'. The central panel presents a framed Gothic-script verse text, flanked below by a floral ornament, with the redemption notice and validity date distributed across the lower register of all three panels. |
| 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. Einlösbar bei der Stadtkasse Rothenburg o/T bis 31. Dezember 1921 |
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber issued this 1 Mark note in 1921 as part of the widespread Notgeld phenomenon, when municipal and commercial entities across Germany stepped in to fill the void left by a federal currency system buckling under postwar inflation. The Stadtkasse — the municipal treasury — had direct authority to issue such instruments, giving this note a more official character than the decorative Serienscheine produced by many towns purely for collector sale.
A print run of over twelve million for a single small Bavarian town is striking. It reflects not collector demand but genuine transactional necessity — notes cycling through local commerce at a pace that wore them out quickly.