5 Pfennig - Radeberg F.L.R.

Radeberg's 1917 zinc notgeld issue belongs to the vast wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded Germany after the imperial government's requisition of copper and nickel for war production made ordinary small change impossible to sustain. Hundreds of towns and cities struck their own pieces under emergency authorization, with zinc becoming the default substitute despite its poor striking qualities and tendency to corrode. The "F.L.R." designation identifies the issuing authority more precisely within the municipal structure — a common but not universal practice among notgeld issuers of this period.