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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Ansbach (City Council of Ansbach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Size | 90 × 60 mm |
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| Obverse description | Tan-coloured Notgeld note printed in black letterpress, with a thick black border frame. To the left, the large numeral '75' above the denomination 'PFENNIG' is set above the heraldic shield of Ansbach — a divided escutcheon with three fish on wavy horizontal lines — flanked by the jubilee years '1221' and '1921'. The right half carries the multi-line inscription identifying this as a Jubiläums-Notgeld of the Kreishauptstadt Ansbach, with a stamped red serial number across a wavy red underprint band, validity clause, the issuing date '12·8·21', a manuscript signature above the printed title 'RECHTSK·1·BÜRGERMEISTER', and the designer credit 'WILLY FLACH' at the lower margin. |
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| Obverse lettering | 75 PFENNIG =JUBILÄUMS= -NOTGELD-DER- KREISHAUPTSTADT 'ANSBACH' ·NUR·MIT·GILTIG·BIS· ·DER·AMTL··AUF· ·NUMMER··WIDERRUF 'STADTRAT'12·8·21 RECHTSK·1·BÜRGERMEISTER 1221 1921 |
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Ansbach's 75 Pfennig notgeld of 1921 falls within the decorative "serienscheine" wave — the phase when municipal authorities across Weimar-era Germany began commissioning artistically ambitious small notes, partly to meet genuine change shortages and partly because the collector market had become a reliable source of seigniorage income for cash-strapped local governments. Ansbach was not alone in exploiting this, but the engagement of a named local designer rather than a commercial printing house template is worth noting.
Willy Flach's credit is uncommon at this denomination level. Most Bavarian municipal issues of this type used anonymous in-house design.