5 Mark - Meissen

Meissen issued porcelain notgeld during the postwar inflation crisis using the one material the city actually controlled — output from the Royal Porcelain Manufactory, founded in 1710 and still the dominant employer in town. Ceramic emergency currency was a practical solution when metal was scarce and paper was losing credibility by the week.

The brown body distinguishes this from the white-glazed variants cataloged under the same Scheuch reference group. Firing consistency varied enough between batches that weight tolerances on surviving examples can differ noticeably from the stated specification.