2 Reichsmark Paul von Hindenburg

Hindenburg died in August 1934, yet his portrait continued to appear on Reichsmark coinage through 1939 — a deliberate political calculation by the Nazi regime, which found it useful to maintain the association with the revered field marshal rather than accelerate the transition to overtly National Socialist iconography on silver circulation coinage. The .625 fineness adopted for this series represented a reduction from the Weimar-era standard, part of a broader rearmament-driven policy of conserving fine silver.