50 Reichspfennig Pattern

Schaaf 324 G11 is one of several nickel pattern submissions evaluated during the Weimar Republic's extended coinage reform deliberations of the mid-1920s, a process complicated by the catastrophic inflation of 1923 and the subsequent stabilization under the Rentenmark. The 50 Pfennig denomination had a particularly troubled history during this period — earlier aluminum issues had become worthless almost overnight. Pattern submissions in nickel reflect the Reichsbank's search for a metal associated with stability rather than the lightweight emergency coinage that preceded it.

This specific Schaaf reference places it among trial pieces that never advanced to circulation, rejected in favor of the aluminum-bronze types eventually adopted.