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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-format silver denomination that originated under the Weimar Republic and continued to be minted after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933, with designs modified to incorporate Third Reich symbolism such as the swastika alongside the traditional Reichsadler. These coins circulated as ordinary legal tender throughout Germany during the Nazi period, used in everyday commerce alongside banknotes and smaller coinage. Their production and design changes illustrate how the regime absorbed and repurposed existing state institutions, including the currency, to project its ideology, rather than creating entirely new monetary systems.