25 Pfennig, Gemeinde Frücht, 1922

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]].