5 Mark - Frederick I Death of Frederick I

Frederick I of Baden died on September 28, 1907, after a reign of over fifty years — one of the longest among the German federal princes of the Wilhelmine period. This commemorative was authorized in the same year as his death, making it among the faster memorial issues of the era. Baden's mint at Karlsruhe produced the piece under tight ceremonial deadlines.

Davenport's German Talers reference places this among the final large-format silver commemoratives issued before the German states lost meaningful independent coinage authority following World War I.