5 Reichsmark Pattern

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.