25 Pfennig, Gemeinde Frücht, 1922

Gutschein der Gemeinde Frücht

Reverse of 25 Pfennig, Gemeinde Frücht, 1922 — Reverse 600 dpi

This copy

Accession: OM-00527
Series year: 1922
Actually issued: 1922
Signatures: This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
Grade: AU (IBNS)
Estimated from the archival scan. Folds, soiling and edge condition are visible at this resolution; paper crispness, pinholes, small repairs and pressing are not.
Estimated value: $8 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-03.
Dimensions: 91.9 × 64.3 mm (±0.5, from the scan)
Themes: Notgeld Serienschein Rhineland Freiherr vom Stein Ernst Moritz Arndt Weimar Republic

The type

Type: 25 Pfennig, Gemeinde Frücht, 1922
Printer: Hartmann, Coblenz
Rarity: common

Inscriptions

Obverse — the dedication

"Sein Nein war Nein gewichtig, Sein Ja war Ja vollmächtig, Seines Ja war er gedächtig, Sein Grund, sein Mund einträchtig, Sein Wort, das war sein Siegel." (Dem Vater des Ministers Freiherrn vom und zum Stein gewidmet.)

Verse praising a man true to his word, dedicated to the father of Minister Freiherr vom und zum Stein, whose family tomb stands in Frücht.

Symbology

Arms of Frücht: The quartered shield of the commune, with a horse crest, carried on all three values of the series.
Stein and Arndt dedications: The village celebrates its two patriotic associations: the reformer Freiherr vom Stein, buried here, and his collaborator the writer Ernst Moritz Arndt.

What was happening

Frücht is a tiny village near Bad Ems, in what was then Prussian Hesse-Nassau. Its claim on history is a grave: Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein (1757–1831), the Prussian reform minister of peasant emancipation and municipal self-government, is buried here, in the neo-Gothic Steinsche Kapelle. The village's Notgeld makes the most of the connection.

This 25 Pfennig note carries the Frücht arms and lines dedicated to Stein's father: "Sein Nein war Nein gewichtig, / Sein Ja war Ja vollmächtig … Sein Wort, das war sein Siegel." The other values of the set quote the Rhineland nationalist writer Ernst Moritz Arndt (1769–1860), Stein's close collaborator in the Wars of Liberation, and the Stein monument at Nassau. Dated Frücht, 1 January 1922, signed by the Bürgermeister, and printed by Hartmann of Coblenz. See also [[notgeld-fruecht-50-pfennig]] and [[notgeld-fruecht-75-pfennig]].

This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 25 Pfennig, Gemeinde Frücht, 1922 in the collection.

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