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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 Weimar era and continued into the Nazi period, when several commemorative and standard types were struck bearing state symbols of the time, including versions that incorporated the swastika alongside the eagle from 1933 onward. These coins circulated as ordinary legal tender throughout Germany and were used in everyday transactions by the general population, not exclusively by party or military figures. They remained in circulation until the currency reforms and Allied occupation measures following Germany's defeat in 1945, after which the Reichsmark was eventually replaced.