Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Frücht (Municipality of Frücht) |
|---|---|
| Year | 1921 |
| Type | Local banknote |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Size | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Printer | Log in to see details |
| Designer(s) | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | The upper portion of the note carries a heraldic vignette at left showing the coat of arms of the Freiherren vom und zum Stein — a quartered red shield with a golden horizontal bar and a rose, surmounted by a crowned helm with a rearing horse as crest and foliate mantling — set against a decorative border of green ivy-leaf motifs. To the right of the arms, a five-line verse in Fraktur script is printed within a cream panel, attributed below to the father of Minister Freiherr vom und zum Stein. Across the lower portion, the issuing legend 'Gutschein der Gemeinde Frücht' appears in bold Gothic lettering above the denomination value '25' in red cartouches at each corner, with the validity clause, date '1. 1. 1922', and the Bürgermeister's manuscript signature printed centrally. |
|---|---|
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | The reverse is set against an ochre-yellow ground framed by a wide decorative border of stylised dark green and black repeating foliate and lancet motifs. At centre, a rectangular vignette reproduces an engraved image of the memorial wall tablet from the burial chapel of the Reichsfreiherrliche Familie vom und zum Stein at Frücht, rendered in a woodcut-like style and showing a half-length portrait of Heinrich Friedrich Karl Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein within a classical columned niche with an inscribed plinth below. Beneath the vignette, a three-line caption in Fraktur identifies the tablet and names the subject in full. |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Signature(s) | Log in to see details |
| Protection type | Log in to see details |
| Protection description | Log in to see details |
| Variants | Log in to see details |
| Comments |
Frücht is a small village in the Westerwald, just east of Bad Ems, and its municipal notgeld issue reflects the acute small-change shortage that gripped German communities in the early 1920s as inflation began accelerating and metal coins disappeared from everyday use. Thousands of German municipalities printed their own emergency pfennig notes during this period; Frücht's issue is among the more modest, with no documented series variants beyond this single type.
Hartmann of Koblenz was a regional commercial printer, not a specialist banknote firm, which was entirely typical for small-denomination notgeld at this level of municipal issue.