50 Reichspfennig Pattern

In 1925, the Reichsbank was actively experimenting with coinage compositions as Germany stabilized under the Rentenmark system introduced two years earlier. This copper-nickel pattern was part of that exploratory phase — the production 50 Reichspfennig ultimately appeared in aluminum-bronze, making this trial strike a rejected alternative rather than a precursor. Patterns from this period were rarely preserved in quantity, as the Reichsmünzamt had no systematic policy for archiving rejected trials.