5 Kopecks Latvia, Libava, Libau

Libau — the heavily Germanized port city on the Baltic coast — was occupied by German forces in May 1915, but this note predates that occupation. The Libau City Council issued these small-denomination emergency pieces in the early months of the war as metal coinage vanished from circulation almost immediately after mobilization began. Municipal authorities across the Russian Empire scrambled to fill the vacuum with locally printed scrip, and Libau was among the first Latvian cities to do so.

The unlisted Pick status reflects how poorly documented these hyperlocal wartime issues remain. Many were printed in tiny runs, circulated within a single town, and survived in negligible quantities.