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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadtrat Ansbach (City Council of Ansbach) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse description | Orange note with a bold black typographic and woodcut design within a thick black border. At upper left, the large denomination numeral '75' is printed above the city arms of Ansbach — a shield bearing three fish over a diagonally hatched field — with the dates '1221' and '1921' flanking its base, commemorating the 700th anniversary of the city. To the right, a block-letter inscription names this a Jubiläums-Notgeld issued by the Kreishauptstadt Ansbach, with a red stamped serial number across a wavy guilloche-style vignette, below which the issuing authority, date '12.8.21', and the facsimile signature of the acting mayor are printed. |
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| Reverse lettering | 1331 |
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Ansbach's 1921 Notgeld issue belongs to the second and more self-conscious wave of German emergency currency, when municipalities had largely stopped treating small-denomination scrip as a stopgap and started commissioning it as a revenue stream. Collectors were buying series outright, never intending to spend them, and city councils knew it. Willy Flach's involvement suggests a locally sourced design rather than one farmed out to the large commercial printers — Leipzig, Berlin, or Bielefeld houses — who supplied generic layouts to hundreds of smaller towns simultaneously.
The 75-Pfennig denomination itself is a tell: it has no obvious commercial utility and exists almost entirely because Notgeld issuers were padding denominations to lengthen sets.