25 Pfennig

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.