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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Ansbach (City Council of Ansbach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Value | 75 Pfennigs (75 Pfennige) (0.75) |
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| Obverse description | Orange ground with black letterpress printing throughout, enclosed in a bold rectangular border. To the left, the municipal arms of Ansbach — a heraldic shield with diagonal banding and three fish — appears beneath the large numeral '75' and the word 'PFENNIG', with the commemorative dates '1221' and '1921' below. To the right, the text identifies this as a Jubiläums-Notgeld of the Kreishauptstadt Ansbach, with a red overprinted serial number on a wavy-line vignette, the issue date '12·8·21', a manuscript signature, and the legend 'RECHTSEI BÜRGERMEISTER'. The designer's name 'WILLY FLACH' is lettered in the lower margin. |
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| Reverse description | Orange ground with black letterpress printing in a bold rectangular border. The entire field is occupied by a silhouette-style vignette of three figures engaged in construction work — one holding a scroll, one pushing a wheelbarrow laden with materials, and one hoisting a bucket — evoking the 1531 construction of the Ansbach town hall (Rathausbau). The year '1531' appears at the upper centre, and a lower panel bears the inscription 'RATHAUSBAU' between decorative lozenges. |
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Ansbach's 75 Pfennig notgeld of 1921 belongs to the second wave of German municipal emergency currency — issued not from genuine coin shortage, as in 1914–1918, but largely because the collector market had made local notgeld a revenue source for cash-strapped municipalities. The Stadtrat would have been well aware that a significant portion of these printings would never circulate at all, absorbed instead into albums across Germany and abroad.
Willy Flach's involvement is the detail worth noting. Local artist-designers gave the better Ansbach issues a regional character that distinguishes them from the purely typographic series churned out by printers on standard stock.