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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Ansbach (City Council of Ansbach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 89 × 60 mm |
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| Reverse description | Green-tinted reverse in the same bold silhouette woodcut style as the obverse. The central vignette presents two black silhouetted medieval figures facing each other across a stylised grassy foreground: the left figure carries a model of a fortified town or castle, while the right figure holds two bulging money sacks. The date '1331' appears above the scene in blackletter numerals, referencing a historical event in Ansbach's past. A decorative geometric border band runs along the lower edge of the vignette containing the inscription 'DIE ERSTE ZOLLE'. |
| Reverse lettering | 1331 · DIE ERSTE ZOLLE |
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Ansbach's 25 Pfennig notgeld from 1921 falls into the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — by this point the original wartime coin shortages had given way to a different problem entirely: the inflationary spiral that would, within two years, render any fixed-denomination paper token effectively worthless. City councils issuing notgeld in 1921 were, knowingly or not, printing into an abyss.
Willy Flach's involvement is worth noting. Local artist commissions for notgeld series were common in Bavaria, and Ansbach — a town with genuine architectural and historical pride as a former Hohenzollern margraviate residence — tended toward more considered designs than purely utilitarian scrip from comparable municipalities.