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5 Mark - William II Reverse Trial
| Issuer | Staatliche Münze Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart |
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| Year | 1910 |
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| Obverse description | Plain, unadorned field with no design elements, legends, or devices; the obverse face is entirely smooth, serving as a blank surface consistent with a reverse trial piece in which only the reverse die was used for this uniface klippe pattern. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Trial pieces from the Stuttgart mint documenting reverse die testing are rarely cataloged with any precision, but Schaaf's attribution system for Wilhelmine-era probes is unusually thorough. This copper strike — well over twice the weight of the production silver — served as a mechanical test for die alignment and press pressure, not as a presentation piece. The Staatliche Münze Baden-Württemberg issued trials in base metal specifically to avoid wasting silver blanks on setup runs.
Schaaf 176/G3 places this within a documented sequence of reverse-only trials for the 1910 Stuttgart coinage program.