5 Pfennig - Hirschfelde Flachsspinnerei H.C. Müller

Hirschfelde's linen industry was substantial enough by the early twentieth century that the Flachsspinnerei H.C. Müller operated as a near-autonomous economic unit — paying wages in part through factory-issued notgeld when small-denomination Reichsmünzen dried up during and after the First World War. These private emergency tokens circulated exclusively within the mill's closed economy, redeemable at the company store.

Nickel-plated zinc was the pragmatic wartime substitute for the copper and nickel alloys no longer available to civilian mints.