25 Pfennig

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.