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5 Reichsmark Pattern
| Issuer | German Reich |
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| Year | 1926 |
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| Value | 5 Reichsmark (5 RM) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Schaaf 331 G11 is one of several pattern strikes produced in 1926 as the Reichsbank and Reichsmünzamt worked through competing design proposals for the large silver five-mark denomination. Pattern coinage from this period was struck in genuine circulation alloy rather than in copper or lead, which was standard Weimar-era proofing practice and explains why survivors are often mistaken for circulation strikes by the uninitiated.
The G suffix in the Schaaf classification denotes a Karlsruhe origin — the Baden mint that would go on to strike the majority of circulating Reichsmark coinage through the 1930s.