5 Mark - Stuttgart

Stuttgart's porcelain notgeld emerged from the same postwar emergency that drove dozens of German municipalities to commission ceramic currency from Meissen and other manufacturers — conventional metals had been requisitioned, hoarded, or priced out of practical coinage use. The city turned to Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen, whose kilns were already producing emergency coinage for multiple issuers simultaneously by 1921.

Porcelain pieces from this period are deceptively fragile survivors; most cracked in circulation or were discarded once the emergency passed.