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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtkasse Rothenburg ob der Tauber |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Reference(s) | DeNG 1/2#1142.2a-3/6 |
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| Obverse lettering | Fünfzig Pfennig Notgeld der Stadt Rothenburg ob der Tauber Einlösbar bei der Stadtkasse Rothenburg o/T. bis 31. Dez. 1921 Rothenburg d. 24. Juni 1921 Der Stadtrat: 1. Bürgermeister ADOLF HOSSE Rothenburg o/T. 50 Pf |
| Reverse description | Horizontal reverse printed in matching dark red, green, and olive tones, centred on an oval portrait vignette of Tilly — the Imperial Catholic League general — rendered bust-length in a wide-brimmed plumed hat and ruff collar, with a snake or whip motif below, within a circular cartouche inscribed with the legend of the Rothenburg historical pageant. Dense foliate scrollwork fills the left and right panels, and denomination shields reading '50 Pf.' appear at lower left and right. A two-line verse in Gothic script runs along the lower border. |
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber issued its own emergency currency — Notgeld — during the hyperinflationary spiral of the early Weimar years, when municipal treasuries across Germany scrambled to fill the coin shortage left by wartime metal requisitioning. The Stadtkasse, the town's own cash office rather than a private bank, was the issuing authority here, which was common for smaller Bavarian towns without a local savings institution willing to take on the administrative burden.
Adolf Hosse was a local printer, and this note never left the region in any meaningful commercial sense — Rothenburg's Notgeld circulated as genuine small-change substitute, not primarily as the decorative collector series the town later produced for the tourist trade.