5 Pfennig - Torgau

Torgau issued iron notgeld in 1917 as the Imperial German war economy stripped copper and nickel from civilian coinage. The city sits on the Elbe in Saxony and had been a fortified garrison town since the medieval period — its infrastructure for local administrative currency was well-established. Iron was chosen not by preference but by elimination; by mid-war, the Kriegsmetall requisitions had made traditional alloys essentially unavailable to municipal issuers.

The Funck reference places this among a numbered series of Torgau emissions, with the .4 suffix denoting a specific die state or variant within that type.