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25 Pfennig - Rothenburg ob der Tauber Kobolzeller Tor
| Issuer | Rothenburg ob der Tauber, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Emergency coin |
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| Obverse lettering | 1921 Stadt 25 Pf Rothenburg o/Tbr |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber issued a series of Notgeld coins in 1921 as Germany's postwar metal shortages and inflation made Reichsbank coinage scarce and hoarded. Iron was the fallback — cheap, available, and deeply unpopular with the public, which is precisely why so many iron Notgeld pieces survived in better condition than their copper or zinc counterparts. The town leaned hard into its medieval tourism identity even during the crisis years, and the Kobolzeller Tor — a 14th-century gate tower on the southern approach to the old town — was a natural choice for a municipality that understood its architecture was its most marketable asset.