Hammer and compass on two wheat stalks symbolizing the alliance of the working class with the toiling peasants and the creative intelligentsia, after the emblem of the Five-Year Plan.
Obverse script
Latin
Obverse lettering
1952
Reverse description
Mintmark below PFENNIG
Reverse script
Latin
Reverse lettering
DEUTSCHLAND
5 PFENNIG
E (Translation: Germany)
Edge
Smooth
Mint
A Berlin, Germany (1280-date) E Muldenhütten, Germany(1887-1953)
Mintage
1952 A - - 113 397 140 1952 E - - 24 024 000 1953 A - - 40 993 578 1953 E - - 28 665 173