5 Pfennigs

Netzschkau is a small textile town in the Vogtland region of Saxony, and like hundreds of similar municipalities it resorted to issuing its own Notgeld during the severe coin shortages of 1917–1921. These town-level emissions were technically emergency money, authorized under wartime and postwar necessity rather than any coherent monetary policy from Berlin. The 5 Pfennig denomination is among the lowest face values issued in the Notgeld series — practically worthless even then, but necessary for making change when metal coins had been hoarded or melted.