Commonwealth Coat of Arms sculpted by Stuart Devlin
au-fifty-cents-1997
different-basis 4,300,000 pieces
The website's rounded figure and the annual report total agree within the website's printed precision. They still answer different questions: a final mintage against production during a fiscal year.
| Figure | Mint | What was counted | Source, and its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,300,000 | RAM | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: fifty cents (Mintage Figures)
1997 | 4.3 | RAM |
| 4,337,200 | not stated | struck-in-report-year | Royal Australian Mint annual reports, circulating coin production appendices
2011,2241,2163,2280 0.0100 |
It does not tell you what the coin is worth. A catalogue can honestly report how many were struck, what metal is in one, and what the documents say. It cannot report a market price without either inventing it or copying someone who might have. So this catalogue reports the first three and stays quiet about the fourth.