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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtmagistrat Rothenburg ob der Tauber |
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| Year | 1918 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is similarly tripartite, with left and right side panels filled with dense foliate scroll ornament in black on grey, each bearing the denomination 'Fünfzig Pfennig' and the numeral '50' repeated in large red Fraktur lettering. The central octagonal vignette presents a polychrome scene of a seated landsknecht soldier in period costume, resting a musket across his knee, set against a panoramic view of the medieval town of Rothenburg ob der Tauber with its characteristic towers, rooftops, and gatehouse rendered in a woodcut-inspired style with yellow sky. |
| Reverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig 50 Fünfzig Pfennig |
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber issued this Notgeld note in 1918 under the Stadtmagistrat — the civic authority — as small-change coinage effectively vanished from circulation during the war. The Reichsbank had long since absorbed silver and base metal coinage into the war economy, leaving municipalities to paper over the gap with their own emergency issues. Rothenburg's version was among thousands of similar local notes produced across Germany that year, though the town's administrative series remained relatively restrained compared to the elaborate collector-targeted Notgeld that flooded the market from 1920 onward.