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5 Mark - William II Pattern
| Issuer | Prussia, Kingdom of |
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| Year | 1904 |
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| Composition | Silver (.900) |
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| Obverse description | Unadorned right-facing effigy of Kaiser Wilhelm II with close-cropped hair and prominent moustache, rendered in high relief against a smooth field. The portrait is large and finely detailed, occupying the central portion of the flan. A beaded inner border frames the design, with the circumferential legend reading WILHELM II DEUTSCHER KAISER KÖNIG V. PREUSSEN. The mint mark A appears beneath the truncation at the bottom of the field. |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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Schaaf 104/G4 is one of several pattern strikings produced ahead of the 1907 coinage reform in Prussia, a process that generated numerous rejected and approved designs as Wilhelm II's administration weighed changes to the imperial portrait coinage. Patterns from this sequence were struck in very limited numbers — often fewer than a dozen impressions — primarily for submission to the Kaiser himself, whose personal approval was required before any design could advance to production.
The G4 designation places this among a subseries of variants differing in minor details from siblings in the same trial group.