5 Pfennig - Zell im Wiesental

Zell im Wiesental is a small textile-mill town in the southern Black Forest, and this piece belongs to the enormous wave of municipal Kriegsgeld issued across Germany from 1916 onward as the Imperial government's zinc and copper stocks were redirected entirely toward shell casings and military hardware. Hundreds of towns struck their own emergency coinage under Reich authorization, and Funck's catalog alone lists over a thousand distinct municipal types from this period.

The Funck 623.1 designation places this among the earlier documented varieties from Zell.