An impression of an echidna designed and sculpted by Stuart Devlin
au-five-cents-1988
report-total-below-website 103,400,000 pieces
The annual reports we could extract account for 65,423,515, which is 37,976,485 short of the website's 103,400,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 103,400,000 | RAM | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: five cents (Mintage Figures)
1988 | 103.4 | RAM |
| 65,423,515 | not stated | struck-in-report-year | Royal Australian Mint annual reports, circulating coin production appendices
1959,1205,2227,1254 65,423,515 |
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.