This is a pattern piece from the dying months of the Weimar Republic, a year when three different men held the chancellorship and constitutional government was effectively unraveling. Pattern coinage from 1932 is rarely documented with precision — the Reichsmünzamt was experimenting with types that never reached authorization, and survival of individual specimens frequently depends on which mint employees pocketed examples before the dies were destroyed.
KM# Pn10 is one of the more obscure entries in the pattern sequence for this denomination.
This is a pattern piece from the dying months of the Weimar Republic, a year when three different men held the chancellorship and constitutional government was effectively unraveling. Pattern coinage from 1932 is rarely documented with precision — the Reichsmünzamt was experimenting with types that never reached authorization, and survival of individual specimens frequently depends on which mint employees pocketed examples before the dies were destroyed.
KM# Pn10 is one of the more obscure entries in the pattern sequence for this denomination.