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5 Reichsmark Saar - Pattern
| Issuer | Reichsministry of Finance, Germany |
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| Year | 1935 |
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| Value | 5 Reichsmark (5 RM) |
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| Reverse description | A male figure in motion, depicted nude and striding dynamically at center, leaping or stepping over a split boundary marker or border post, symbolizing the reintegration of the Saar territory into the German Reich. The figure is rendered in a bold, heroic relief typical of National Socialist artistic convention. The encircling legend reads DEUTSCH IST DIE SAAR and the date A 13. JANUAR 1935, referencing the Saar plebiscite of that date. The legend runs around the full periphery of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | Deutsch ist Die Saar A 13. Januar 1935 |
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The Saar territory returned to Germany via plebiscite on January 13, 1935 — over 90% voted for reunification — and the Reichsministry of Finance moved quickly to prepare coinage commemorating the reintegration. This piece never entered circulation; it remained a pattern, likely rejected as the regime settled on a different design approach for the issued Saar commemorative struck later that year.
Pattern rejections from this period are poorly documented in official Reichsbank records, making exact die trial quantities essentially unknowable.