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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Ansbach (City Council of Ansbach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse description | Green note with black letterpress printing throughout, framed by a bold black border. The left side bears the Ansbach municipal coat of arms — a heraldic shield with wavy horizontal lines and three fish — flanked by the founding year 1221 and the issue year 1921. To the right, the denomination 25 PFENNIG appears in large block numerals at the upper left, above the text JUBILÄUMS-NOTGELD DER KREISHAUPTSTADT ANSBACH in stylized Gothic lettering; below, a red hand-stamped serial number is accompanied by validity clauses and a facsimile signature of the first Bürgermeister, dated STADTRAT 12.8.21. |
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| Signature(s) | Dr. W. Burkholder (1. Bürgermeister) |
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Ansbach's 1921 Kleingeldscheine were a direct response to the acute small-change shortage that gripped German municipalities in the early Weimar inflation years — metallic coinage had effectively disappeared from circulation as commodity values outpaced face values. Hundreds of German towns issued their own emergency fractions in this period, but quality varied enormously. Ansbach commissioned local designer Willy Flach, a decision that gave this modest quarter-mark note a degree of graphic coherence unusual among comparable Notgeld issues.
The signatory, Dr. W. Burkholder as First Burgomaster, authenticated the series under municipal authority rather than a banking institution — legally permissible under the emergency decrees then in effect, but an arrangement that would be wound up within a few years as the Rentenmark stabilization took hold.