25 Pfennig

Groß-Wirschleben is a village in Saxony-Anhalt, and like hundreds of similarly obscure German municipalities, it issued Notgeld during the post-WWI coin shortage rather than wait on central authorities who had neither the metal nor the logistical will to supply small denominations. The 1921 date places this firmly in the second wave of emergency currency, after the acute 1918–1920 shortages had already normalized the practice of local paper filling the gap left by hoarded coinage.

The DeNG reference suggests this is one of four known varieties in the series — subtle differences in serial numbering or overprint likely distinguish them.