An impression of an echidna designed and sculpted by Stuart Devlin
au-five-cents-1989
different-basis 95,800,000 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 95,800,000 | RAM | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: five cents (Mintage Figures)
1989 | 95.8 | RAM |
| 95,753,300 | not stated | struck-in-report-year | Royal Australian Mint annual reports, circulating coin production appendices
1959,1268,2227,1318 35,037,300 |
A variety is a claim about a coin, and claims differ in how well they are evidenced. The grade beside each says what kind of source stands behind it. This catalogue prints no valuations, so nothing here tells you what a variety is worth.
| Variety | How you tell it apart | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 5c on 1c planchet | 5c design on smaller 1c blank | scholarly
a numismatic society, museum catalogue or archival study |
source |
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.