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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. The 5 Reichsmark coin was a large silver denomination first introduced under the Weimar Republic and continued into the Nazi era with modified imagery incorporating National Socialist symbols alongside the state eagle. It circulated as ordinary legal tender used in everyday transactions throughout Germany, reflecting the regime's broader practice of adapting existing institutions, including the currency, to project its ideology. Coins of this type remained in use until the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945, after which occupation and post-war currency reforms replaced the Reichsmark system entirely.