An impression of an echidna designed and sculpted by Stuart Devlin
au-five-cents-1981
summed-from-components 162,300,000 pieces
Published as 3 separate mint figures for this year; the total is their sum. Published in millions, so the figure is precise to +/- 50000 pieces, not to the unit.
| Figure | Mint | What was counted | Source, and its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50,300,000 | RMLL | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: five cents (Mintage Figures)
1981 | 50.3 | RMLL |
| 50,000,000 | RCM | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: five cents (Mintage Figures)
1981 | 50.0 | RCM |
| 62,000,000 | RAM | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: five cents (Mintage Figures)
1981 | 62.0 | RAM |
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.