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25 Pfennig - Rothenburg ob der Tauber Röder Tor
| Issuer | City of Rothenburg ob der Tauber |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 25 Pfennigs (25 Pfennige) (0.25) |
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| Reverse description | A detailed architectural vignette occupies the entire reverse field, depicting the Röder Tor (Röder Gate), one of Rothenburg ob der Tauber's most celebrated medieval fortification towers. The composition shows the multi-storied gate tower with its characteristic stepped roofline and arched passageway at ground level, flanked by conifer trees and additional fortification structures rendered in fine pictorial relief. The inscription 'Röder- Tor' appears in Gothic script at the upper left of the field. The manufacturer's legend 'L.CHR.LAUER NUERNBERG' is inscribed along the lower exergue in small Latin capitals. |
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| Mintage | 1921 - F#453.7h |
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Issued during the Notgeld crisis of the early Weimar period, when municipal and commercial bodies across Germany filled the void left by a collapsed central coin supply. Rothenburg ob der Tauber, a town that had carefully cultivated its medieval identity as a tourist destination since the late 19th century, leaned into that image aggressively in its emergency coinage — the Röder Tor being one of the city's most recognizable surviving medieval gates.
Iron was a pragmatic choice in 1921, with nickel and copper still diverted or scarce following wartime requisitioning. The Funck reference places this among the later municipal iron issues, by which point the Notgeld series had become as much a collector commodity as a circulating necessity.