5 Pfennig - Reichenbach Wohltätigkeits- und Pflegeanstalt

The Convent of the Brothers of Mercy at Reichenbach in the Upper Palatinate operated a charitable care institution — the Wohltätigkeits- und Pflegeanstalt — and issued these tokens for internal circulation among residents and staff, a practice common to closed ecclesiastical institutions that needed to manage small transactions without drawing on official currency. Such house money kept accounts tidy and discouraged hoarding of Reich coinage.

Nickel-plated zinc points to a mid-20th century issue, almost certainly wartime or immediate postwar production when base metals dominated token manufacture across Germany.