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25 Pfennig
| Issuer | Stadt Groß Salze (City of Groß Salze) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Size | 81 × 58 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse is laid out in a two-colour letterpress design of red and green, with the word "Gutschein" set in Fraktur at the top centre within an octagonal panel. A large ornate numeral "25" dominates the centre field in green with red outline, flanked symmetrically by two fan-shaped guilloche ray patterns from which spring four wheat-ear sprays in red. A cartouche at the lower centre contains the validity clause in script lettering, and small denomination numerals "25" appear in red-framed squares at each upper corner. |
| Reverse lettering | Gutschein 25 Pf. Pf. 25 25 Die Gültigkeit erlischt drei Monate nach Bekanntmachung. |
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Groß Salze — now absorbed into Schönebeck an der Elbe in Saxony-Anhalt — was one of hundreds of German municipalities that issued Kleingeldersatz notes in 1920 when small-denomination Reichsmark coinage virtually disappeared from circulation, hoarded or melted as metal values outpaced face values. The town's salt-extraction history stretches back to the early medieval period, and its identity was so bound to the trade that the name means, straightforwardly, "Great Salt."
Municipal notgeld of this type was printed in vast quantities across Germany between 1919 and 1922, often contracted to local printers with variable quality control. Collector demand drove some towns to produce decorative series far beyond genuine monetary need — whether Groß Salze issued for utility or the collector market is worth checking against known print run documentation.