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Third Reich Nazi 5 Reichsmark Silver Coin - German 5 Reichsmark Coin The 5 Reichsmark coin was a large silver denomination issued in Germany from the early 1930s through the Nazi period, continuing a coinage tradition established under the Weimar Republic. After 1933 the design was altered to incorporate National Socialist symbolism alongside the traditional eagle, reflecting the regime's practice of adapting existing state institutions and currency to its own iconography. Such coins remained in general circulation as legal tender until the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945. Coins of this denomination were struck at various German mints and identified by a small letter denoting the mint of origin, a system carried over from earlier German coinage practices. The silver 5 Reichsmark piece was among the larger circulating denominations of the period, used in everyday commerce alongside smaller base-metal coins. Its continued production through the 1930s reflects the ordinary monetary administration of the German state even as its symbolism was altered to reflect the political changes of the Nazi era.