5 Pfennig - Landau

Landau's 1917 zinc notgeld emerged from the same supply crisis that gutted Germany's copper and nickel reserves mid-war, forcing hundreds of municipalities to issue their own emergency coinage. Landau in der Pfalz, a former fortress town that had passed between French and German hands repeatedly since Louis XIV's engineers enclosed it in 1688, was among the smaller Palatinate communities compelled to fill the void left by vanishing imperial small change.

The Funck reference places this as variety .4, indicating at least four die or production variants were catalogued for this type alone.