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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 piece was a large-format silver coin that had been introduced in the late Weimar period and continued into the Nazi era with modified imagery, most notably versions bearing the swastika alongside the German eagle from 1933 onward. It circulated as ordinary legal tender for everyday transactions throughout the Third Reich, distinct from commemorative issues, and remained in use until Germany's currency system collapsed with the war's end in 1945.