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10 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Stadtrat) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| In circulation to | One month after official recall (Einlösbar bis ein Monat nach Aufruf) |
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| Obverse description | Cream-toned notgeld printed in blue and terracotta-orange letterpress, with a panoramic underprint vignette of the Rothenburg ob der Tauber medieval townscape rendered in orange-brown across the centre. The municipal heraldic shield appears in blue at the upper left, while the bold Gothic numeral '10' is positioned at the upper right. The issuing authority 'Stadt Rothenburg o. Tauber' runs in Gothic script along the top, with denomination, validity, date, and issuing body inscribed below in smaller Gothic type. |
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| Reverse description | Unprinted off-white reverse in plain paper stock, showing only a faint set-off impression of the obverse design visible through the thin substrate, with ghost images of the city vignette, denomination numerals, and inscriptions transferred from the face during printing. |
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber issued notgeld aggressively during the early 1920s inflation period, and the town's issues were among the most deliberately collectible of the era — local authorities knew full well that tourists and philatelic speculators would absorb large quantities without ever spending them, effectively generating interest-free municipal revenue. The 1921 Stadtrat issues fall squarely into this category.
Printed locally rather than through one of the major notgeld printers like Straus or Dondorf, the production values reflect that accordingly.