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100 Euros The Jew's Beech
| Issuer | Federal Republic of Germany |
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| Year | 2026 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Part of Germany's ongoing "German Forest" gold series, this issue takes its subject from Annette von Droste-Hülshoff's 1842 novella Die Judenbuche, one of the earliest works of German-language crime fiction and a foundational text of Westphalian regionalist literature. The novella's central beech tree — carved with a Hebrew inscription by the Jewish community of the village as a curse upon the murderer Friedrich Mergel — carries a moral weight that made it an uncomfortable subject during the Third Reich, when editions were heavily edited or suppressed.
The Westphalian forest setting was not incidental to Droste-Hülshoff; she wrote the novella on her family estate at Burg Hülshoff, drawing on a real 1783 criminal case from the Paderborn region.