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50 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Rothenburg ob der Tauber |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 50 Pfennigs (50 Pfennige) (0.50) |
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| Obverse description | Notgeld issue printed in dark red and green on a buff ground, with the denomination "50 Pf" repeated in each corner within shield-shaped cartouches. The central panel carries the text inscription in Gothic blackletter script, flanked left by a vignette of a drummer in period costume and right by a soldier bearing a pike. Below the central text, the municipal coat of arms of Rothenburg ob der Tauber is set between the redemption clause and the issue date, with a serial number and a manuscript signature of the Bürgermeister. |
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| Reverse description | Printed in green and dark red on a buff ground, the reverse centres on a circular vignette containing a portrait bust in profile of Alt-Bürgermeister Nusch, rendered in a fine-line illustrative style with a ruffled collar, set against a green ground. The denomination "Fünfzig Pf" appears in Gothic blackletter at upper left and right, and an arched inscription frames the portrait roundel. Elaborate foliate arabesques fill the lateral panels, while a lower text panel carries a two-line verse in Gothic script. |
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber was among hundreds of German municipalities forced into emergency money production as the Reichsbank's coin shortages became acute in the early 1920s. This Stadtrat issue belongs to a wave of Notgeld that small Bavarian towns printed locally rather than waiting for central supply — Adolf Hosse was a local printer, not a specialist currency house, which accounts for the modest production values typical of provincial municipal issues.
The reference suffix ".2a-5/6" suggests this is one of a numbered series variant, a common cataloguing distinction among Rothenburg issues where slight typographic or color differences between print runs created multiple collectible subtypes.