An impression of an echidna designed and sculpted by Stuart Devlin
au-five-cents-1998
different-basis 88,500,000 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 88,500,000 | RAM | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: five cents (Mintage Figures)
1998 | 88.5 | RAM |
| 88,532,000 | not stated | struck-in-report-year | Royal Australian Mint annual reports, circulating coin production appendices
2094,2308,2220,2341 2.0500 |
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.