Commonwealth Coat of Arms sculpted by Stuart Devlin
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report-total-below-website 17,600,000 pieces
The annual reports we could extract account for 5,670,000, which is 11,930,000 short of the website's 17,600,000. This is NOT presented as a disagreement: an incomplete extraction on our side would look exactly like this, so the shortfall is evidence about our coverage rather than about the Mint. The website figure stands.
| Figure | Mint | What was counted | Source, and its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17,600,000 | RAM | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: fifty cents (Mintage Figures)
2012 | 17.6 | RAM |
| 5,670,000 | not stated | struck-in-report-year | Royal Australian Mint annual reports, circulating coin production appendices
50c Standard 2012 Cupro Nickel 5.670 |
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.