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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 first introduced during the Weimar Republic and continued, with modified imagery, after the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. Later issues incorporated the swastika alongside the traditional Reichsadler, reflecting the regime's broader practice of grafting National Socialist iconography onto existing state institutions and currency. These coins circulated as ordinary legal tender in daily commerce throughout Germany until the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945.