5 Mark - William II Pattern

This is a pattern struck in gold for the 1913 coinage reform discussions, one of several experimental pieces produced as Prussia — and the broader German Empire — considered revising the Mark series ahead of what would prove to be the last full peacetime year before the war dismantled the gold standard entirely. The Schaaf and Kienast references both document this piece within a small population of trial strikings that never advanced to circulation.

Fewer than a handful of examples are recorded.