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5 Deutsche Mark Immanuel Kant
| Issuer | Federal Republic of Germany |
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| Year | 1974 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#139, J#414, Schön#138 |
| Obverse description | The German Federal Eagle, rendered in a stylized heraldic manner with spread wings and head facing right, occupies the upper half of the coin. Below the eagle, arranged in three lines across the field, is the legend BUNDES- REPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND with the date 1974 following a raised dot. The denomination 5 is prominently displayed in large numerals at the lower centre, flanked to the right by the inscription DEUTSCHE MARK in two lines. The mint mark D, denoting the Munich Mint, appears at the bottom of the field below the numeral 5. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Issued to mark the 250th anniversary of Kant's birth, this is one of a long run of West German commemorative 5-Mark pieces struck in lower-grade silver — a deliberate policy shift from the higher fineness used in earlier issues, driven by rising silver prices through the late 1960s and early 1970s. Kant was born in Königsberg in 1724, a city that by 1974 had been Soviet Kaliningrad for nearly three decades, lending the commemoration an unspoken political edge the Bonn government left entirely unremarked.