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75 Pfennig

Issuer Stadtrat Ansbach (City Council of Ansbach)
Year 1921
Type Local banknote
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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·
RECHTSRAT·BÜRGERMEISTER·
1221 1921
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Reverse lettering 1729
·DER·WILDE·MARKGRAF·
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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.

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