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1 Reichsmark Pattern
| Issuer | German Reich |
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| Year | 1939 |
| Type | Coin pattern |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | Deutsches Reich 1 Reichsmark 193* |
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Pattern coinage from 1939 Germany occupies an uncomfortable historical position — these pieces were struck experimentally as the Reich was actively conserving strategic metals ahead of the war it was already planning. Nickel-plated iron represented a cost-reduction approach that would define wartime German coinage, and this Reichsmark pattern was part of that transition testing. The regular circulating 1 Reichsmark had been issued in .500 silver as recently as 1927; by 1939 that was simply no longer acceptable to the armaments economy.
Pn100 is sparsely documented, and confirmed surviving examples are rare outside institutional holdings.