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.
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.