Patterns from the 1925 Reichspfennig series document the monetary committee's extended deliberations over alloy selection before the nickel shortage concerns pushed the final circulating types toward aluminum-bronze. This copper-nickel trial was never approved for production. The KM# Pn13 designation places it among a small cluster of contemporaneous patterns tested that year, most of which remained in Reichsbank or official collection hands and saw no circulation whatsoever.
Patterns from the 1925 Reichspfennig series document the monetary committee's extended deliberations over alloy selection before the nickel shortage concerns pushed the final circulating types toward aluminum-bronze. This copper-nickel trial was never approved for production. The KM# Pn13 designation places it among a small cluster of contemporaneous patterns tested that year, most of which remained in Reichsbank or official collection hands and saw no circulation whatsoever.