5 Pfennig - Rosenheim

Rosenheim's 1918 iron notgeld issue belongs to the enormous wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded Germany as the imperial government's metal requisitions stripped copper and nickel from civilian circulation. By mid-1918, even zinc was becoming difficult to source reliably, pushing smaller municipalities toward iron — a material notoriously prone to rusting, which accounts for the condition problems endemic to surviving pieces of this type.