5 Reichsmark Saar - Pattern

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.