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1/2 Mark - Wilhelm II type 2 - small shield - Pattern
| Issuer | Germany (1871-1948) |
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| Year | 1915 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse description | The German Imperial eagle (Reichsadler) displayed with wings spread, facing left, rendered in the Type 2 style with a small quartered shield on its breast bearing the Hohenzollern arms. The eagle is surmounted by the Imperial crown and flanked by elaborate scrollwork at the base of the design. The mint mark 'A' appears twice in the lower field, flanking the decorative foliate ornament. No peripheral legend is present on the obverse. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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By 1915, Germany's silver coinage was under pressure — wartime metal demands would eventually strip subsidiary silver from circulation entirely, with the Reichsbank beginning to hoard silver as early as 1916. This piece appears to be a pattern struck in anticipation of design revisions that never reached full production, the small shield variant representing one of several competing solutions to standardizing the imperial coinage across the federated states. Whether it reached official approval or died in committee is unresolved, but surviving examples are vanishingly rare.