5 Pfennige

German municipal notgeld of the First World War period emerged from a genuine coin shortage — hoarding of metal coinage began almost immediately in 1914, and by 1916 smaller denominations had effectively vanished from everyday commerce. Ebersberg, a small Bavarian market town southeast of Munich, issued its own fractional emergency currency under the same authority that ran local administration, the Marktmagistrat.

Himmer of Augsburg was a natural choice for Bavarian municipal clients — the firm handled a considerable volume of regional government printing. Notes from small issuers like Ebersberg were produced in modest quantities and often saw heavy use before being redeemed, making intact survivors more elusive than their common-seeming origins suggest.