5 Pfennig

Bunzlau's 1919 emergency currency belongs to the vast wave of municipal Notgeld issued across Germany as the postwar coin shortage made small-denomination transactions nearly impossible. The city's own printer, L. Fernbach, handled production locally — an arrangement that was common for these low-value issues and kept turnaround fast, but also meant quality control varied across runs, which is reflected in the multiple varieties cataloged under Grabowski B103.

Bunzlau remained a German city until the Potsdam Agreement transferred all of Lower Silesia east of the Oder-Neisse line to Poland in 1945, at which point it was renamed Bolesławiec and its German population expelled.