5 Pfennig - Ohligs

Ohligs was an independent industrial town in the Rhineland — now absorbed into Solingen — that issued this piece under the notgeld emergency currency provisions that proliferated across German municipalities from 1916 onward, as wartime metal requisitioning stripped conventional coinage from circulation. Zinc was the concession material: iron was militarily strategic, copper was gone, and aluminum was rationed.

Funck's catalog distinguishes at least one variety for this type, suggesting die or planchet variation even within a single municipal issue of this modest denomination.