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75 Pfennig
| Issuer | Gemeinde Frücht (Municipality of Frücht) |
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| Year | 1920-1922 |
| Type | Local banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | Gutschein der Gemeinde Frücht Dieser Schein gilt als Zahlungsmittel für Frücht. Er verliert mit dem 1. Oktober seine Gültigkeit. Frücht, 1. 1. 1922 Der Bürgermeister: Deutschlands Führer in großer Zeit. "Heil, fester Stein vom festen Steine! Heil, stolzer, freier, deutscher Mann!" F. M. Arndt. |
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| Reverse lettering | Standbild d. Ministers Freiherr v. u. z. Stein (1757–1831) aus dem Denkmal zu Nassau a. d. Lahn, seinem Geburtsort. |
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Frücht is a small village in the Westerwald, just east of Bad Ems, and its municipal notgeld issue falls squarely within the mass-casualty phase of German emergency money — the period when thousands of Gemeinden printed their own denominations to compensate for the chronic small-change shortage caused by wartime metal hoarding and postwar monetary chaos. Hartmann of Coblenz was a regional job printer handling a significant volume of Rhineland notgeld during these years, not a specialist securities house.
The 75-Pfennig denomination is the more unusual of the typical Rhineland notgeld denominations, suggesting this series was designed as a set with specific purchasing equivalences in mind rather than issued reactively.