5 Pfennig - Mühlhausen in Thüringen

Mühlhausen issued this zinc notgeld piece in 1917 as Germany's wartime metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage production entirely. The city — better known historically as the site of Thomas Müntzer's ill-fated theocratic commune during the 1525 Peasants' War — found itself, nearly four centuries later, printing and striking its own emergency currency like dozens of other Thuringian municipalities scrambling to maintain small-change liquidity. Funck 342.1 distinguishes this from later municipal issues in the series.