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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 in the late Weimar era and continued into the Nazi period, when several commemorative and standard types were struck bearing state eagle designs, with post-1933 issues incorporating National Socialist symbols such as the swastika. These coins circulated as ordinary legal tender in Germany alongside smaller denominations, used in everyday civilian and military transactions throughout the 1930s and the Second World War. Production and circulation ceased with Germany's defeat in 1945, after which such coinage was gradually withdrawn during the currency reforms of the postwar occupation period.