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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Ansbach (City Council of Ansbach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Ochre-toned note printed in black letterpress with a bold decorative border. At left, the denomination '75 PFENNIG' appears in large Gothic type above the heraldic shield of Ansbach — a divided escutcheon with diagonal wavy lines and three fish — flanked by the civic jubilee years '1221' and '1921'. At right, multi-line Gothic text states the issuing authority and validity conditions, with a red-overprinted serial number set within a wavy-line vignette; below, the manuscript date '12·8·21', an authorising signature, and the attestation legend 'RECHTSRAT · BÜRGERMEISTER' confirm official issue. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse bears a full-bleed silhouette vignette in black on an ochre ground, rendered in a bold flat-cut woodcut style. At centre-left a figure in fox-head costume holds a tall spear-tipped staff and is accompanied by two hounds, while a second figure mounted on a goat appears to the right, all set against a stylised forest backdrop; the year '1729' is printed in the upper right corner. A lower cartouche carries the legend 'DER WILDE MARKGRAF', a reference to the notorious Margrave Carl Wilhelm Friedrich of Brandenburg-Ansbach. |
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Ansbach's 75 Pfennig notgeld of 1921 falls squarely within the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — no longer the wartime necessity of 1914–18, but the inflationary stop-gap of a Weimar economy hemorrhaging purchasing power faster than the Reichsbank could respond. City councils across Bavaria issued their own fractional notes during this period because small-denomination coinage had effectively vanished from circulation, hoarded or melted before it could change hands.
Willy Black's design credit is unusual — most notgeld at this scale was produced anonymously or farmed out to commercial printers who supplied stock artwork. A named local designer suggests the Stadtrat took some civic pride in the commission.