5 Pfennig - Wissing

Wissing is a small municipality in the Westerwald district of Rhineland-Palatinate, and like hundreds of similarly sized German communities in 1917, it resorted to issuing its own emergency coinage as the Imperial war economy stripped copper and nickel from civilian circulation entirely. These Gemeinde-level notmünzen were legal within their issuing locality only, and many never circulated far beyond a single village shop or market.

The two Men18 varieties listed suggest at least a minor die or planchet variation documented by Menzel — worth checking against known examples before cataloging as a single type.