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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Rothenburg ob der Tauber, City of |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | The obverse is set on a grey ground with Gothic Fraktur lettering throughout. A central colour vignette framed in dark brown illustrates a shepherd in silhouette, staff over shoulder, leading a flock of sheep across an open plain beneath a vivid orange and yellow sunset sky, with the medieval skyline of Rothenburg ob der Tauber rendered in blue silhouette along the horizon. The denomination in blue Fraktur script runs across the top beneath the issuer heading, flanked left by redemption conditions and right by the issue date and the facsimile signature of the 1. Bürgermeister; a series letter and serial number in red appear in the lower corners. |
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| Reverse lettering | Wenns Johr emoel was lustis is treibt a der Schäfer aus Noe hüet er halt sei Betzeli sou ganz vorn Städtle draus der Ober- Schäfer 75 75 |
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Rothenburg ob der Tauber's 1921 Notgeld series was among the most deliberately picturesque of the entire Kleingeldschein boom — the city's medieval streetscape had already made it a tourist magnet, and the municipal authorities were not shy about exploiting that. Designer Ernst Unbehauen contributed work to several Franconian Notgeld issues of this period, though his output is underrepresented in the literature.
Signed by Dr. Lindemann as city treasurer, this 75 Pfennig value is the mid-denomination of the series, and saw heavier circulation than the higher values, which were more often kept uncirculated by collectors even at the time of issue.