1932 florin
au-florin-1932
A coin of this date, photographed
Museums Victoria holds one of these and photographs each one, which is a documented proof that a coin bearing this date exists. It says nothing about how many were struck, and is not counted as a mintage anywhere here.
What they hold: specimen. None of these is a circulating strike, so this date is attested only by pieces that were never issued for use.
Specimen Coin - Florin (2 Shillings), Australia, 1932 specimen
Mintage
no-coin-dated-figure 234,000 pieces
No document names how many coins were struck bearing the date 1932. These are report-year figures, counted as issued, and a coin dated 1932 was drawn from deliveries like these. Treating one of them as the mintage of a 1932 coin is what most published figures do, and it is the conflation this catalogue exists to document: the reports themselves record dates carrying over from one report year into the next.
| Figure | Mint | What was counted | Source, and its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 234,000 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1932 |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Australian branch memoranda and appendices
issues from the Commonwealth Treasury for the whole of Australia were :— SILVER. g £ Florins . .. ... ... ... 23,400 Shillings ... . . . .. . . . . 9,200 Sixpences . .. ... . . . 5,200 Threepences ... .. . . . . 6,600 BRONZE. g Pence 9,010 £23,400 x 10 coins per pound |
What can be said instead
No document names a figure for coins dated 1932. The reports do say what the branch mints delivered in the report years around it, and a coin of this date had to come from one of those deliveries.
| Report year | As the report prints it | In pieces | Mint |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | 44,8001. | 448,000 | Melbourne |
So at most 448,000 pieces can bear the date 1932, if Coins dated 1932 were struck in report year 1932 or 1933.
The reports describe dates lagging by a year, but not always by only one: the 1939 report records that Melbourne went on using 1936 dies throughout 1937. Where a date persisted, the true figure can exceed this ceiling.
What this page does not tell you
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.