5 Pfennig - Menden

Menden's 1917 iron Notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded Germany after the imperial government suspended subsidiary coin production and hoarded metals for the war effort. Cities and towns were left to solve the change shortage themselves, with whatever materials the local authorities could source. Iron was the default for many smaller municipalities — copper and nickel had been requisitioned long before.

The Funck reference places this squarely within the documented Westphalian issues, a region that produced some of the most systematically cataloged Notgeld of the period.