5 Pfennig - Marktleuthen

Marktleuthen is a small market town in Upper Franconia, Bavaria, and this iron piece belongs to the enormous wave of municipal notgeld issued across Germany from 1916 onward as the Imperial government's wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from everyday circulation. Iron was the compromise — abundant, cheap, and politically acceptable as a patriotic substitute. Most of these local issues circulated only within the issuing municipality's boundaries.

Funck 322.7 places this among the catalogued Bavarian municipal emissions, though Marktleuthen's small population meant production volumes were modest.