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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 that formed part of Germany's standard coinage throughout the 1930s and into the Second World War, continuing designs first introduced under the Weimar Republic. From 1933 the Reichsadler was modified to incorporate the swastika, part of the Nazi state's broader practice of adapting existing institutions, symbols, and currency to its own ideology while maintaining outward continuity with earlier German coinage. These coins circulated widely as everyday currency among the German population until the collapse of the regime in 1945, after which occupation authorities began withdrawing Nazi-era coinage from circulation.