5 Pfennigs - Bremen Heymann & Neumann

Heymann & Neumann was a Bremen-based wholesale textile firm that issued this notgeld piece during the acute small-change shortage that gripped Germany from 1916 onward — a shortage so severe that hundreds of private companies, municipalities, and cooperatives were effectively forced into the business of minting their own emergency currency. Zinc was the material of necessity; copper and nickel had been requisitioned for the war effort years earlier.

The undated span covering 1918–1922 reflects how long the underlying conditions persisted well past the Armistice.