5 Pfennig - Sömmerda Dreyse and Collenbusch

Dreyse & Collenbusch was the armaments firm founded in Sömmerda by Johann Nikolaus von Dreyse, inventor of the Zündnadelgewehr — the needle-fire rifle that gave Prussian infantry a decisive advantage at Königgrätz in 1866. The factory town's dependence on a single industrial employer made internal scrip a practical necessity, with zinc chosen almost certainly due to wartime metal allocation pressures that stripped conventional coinage metals from civilian use.