25 Pfennig - Rothenburg ob der Tauber Stöberlein Turm

Rothenburg ob der Tauber issued a wave of iron Notgeld in 1921 as Germany's postwar coin shortage persisted well into the early republic. The Stöberlein Tower — a medieval defensive structure on the town's outer wall — was a deliberate choice for local emergency coinage, part of a broader municipal effort to assert civic identity through imagery that tourists had already made famous. Rothenburg had aggressively marketed itself as a preserved medieval town since the late 19th century, and its Notgeld issues were as much collectible souvenirs as functional currency.