5 Pfennig - Weilheim

Weilheim's 1919 iron notgeld issue belongs to the chaotic first wave of municipal emergency coinage that flooded Bavaria following the collapse of the German Empire. The November Revolution, the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic, and the subsequent street fighting of spring 1919 all contributed to a breakdown in normal coin distribution — small change simply stopped reaching provincial towns. Local authorities filled the gap themselves.

Iron was the material of necessity, not choice, with copper and nickel still restricted from civilian coinage under postwar metal controls.