25 Pfennig, Gemeinde Klütz in Mecklenburg, 1921 (Reutergeld)
Reutergeld Klütz
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This copy
- Accession
- OM-00819
- Series year
- 1921
- Actually issued
- 1921
- Signatures
- This issue carries no bank manager or cashier signature.
- Grade
- UNC (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
- $10 indicative
Category benchmark scaled for grade — an order of magnitude, not an appraisal. Priced 2026-10-24.
- Dimensions
- 72.2 × 51.1 mm (±2.7, from the scan)
- Themes
- NotgeldSerienscheinMecklenburgReutergeldLow German verseWeimar Republic
The type
- Type
- 25 Pfennig, Gemeinde Klütz in Mecklenburg, 1921 (Reutergeld)
- Printer
- Not established
- Rarity
- common
Symbology
- Fritz Reuter verse
- A quotation in Low German from the poet Fritz Reuter (1810-1874), which gives the Mecklenburg "Reutergeld" genre its name.
- Village church among trees
- The pictorial face shows a church set among trees in blue, beneath the heading "Reutergeld Klütz - 25 Pfennig".
- Validity to 31 May 1922
- The note is stated to be good within the parish until 31 May 1922 - emergency money designed from the outset to lapse.
What was happening
Reutergeld was Mecklenburg's own version of the Notgeld collector craze. Around 1921 a number of Mecklenburg towns issued Serienscheine whose texts quoted the Low-German (Plattdeutsch) poet Fritz Reuter (1810-1874), the region's most beloved writer, born at Stavenhagen. The Stiftung Mecklenburg describes Reutergeld as a purely collectible issue without real payment function, spreading Reuter's dialect lines as a piece of regional self-advertisement and early tourism promotion.
This is the 25 Pfennig of the Gemeinde Klütz, issued by the Gemeindevorstand Klütz i. Meckl. around 1921 and good within the parish until 31 May 1922. The pictorial face, labelled Reutergeld Klütz - 25 Pfennig, shows a church among trees in blue; the other face is an interior scene with figures beneath a Plattdeutsch Reuter verse. The companion small value is [[notgeld-kluetz-reutergeld-10-pfennig]], and the town's plainer 1922 note is [[notgeld-kluetz-50-pfennig]].
Klütz is a small town in the Klützer Winkel of north-west Mecklenburg, near the Baltic coast between Wismar and Lübeck. It sits at the heart of a corner of country tied to Mecklenburg's literary life - Fritz Reuter's dialect world, and later the "Jerichow" of the novelist Uwe Johnson - which makes the choice of Reutergeld especially fitting for the place.
This account belongs to the type, not this copy — it is shared by every 25 Pfennig, Gemeinde Klütz in Mecklenburg, 1921 (Reutergeld) in the collection.
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