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| Issuer | Rothenburg ob der Tauber, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Thickness | 1.4 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | Stadt-Rothenburg o/Tauber 25 Pfennig 19 21 |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber issued this Notgeld piece amid the coin shortages that plagued postwar Germany, when the Reichsbank could not keep fractional currency in circulation fast enough to meet demand. Iron was the default resort for municipal issues by 1921 — copper was still under pressure from wartime metal controls, and aluminum struck too softly for durable low-denomination pieces. Hundreds of German cities ran parallel emergency coinage programs that year, most discontinued within eighteen months once Weimar's monetary collapse made the denominations functionally worthless anyway.