5 Reichsmark Pattern

Schaaf 331 G17 is one of several experimental pieces struck in 1926 as the Weimar Republic's mint authorities worked through competing proposals for a revised 5 Reichsmark type. Pattern coinage of this period was produced in small numbers at the Berlin Reichsmünze, rarely with any official record of exact strikage — most surviving examples trace back to mint employee collections or later state disposals rather than any formal distribution.

The .500 fine silver specification places this squarely in the post-stabilization economy, after the Rentenmark crisis of 1923–24 forced a fundamental rethink of German coinage metal policy.