1939 florin
au-florin-1939
A coin of this date, photographed
Museums Victoria holds 2 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: proof. None of these is a circulating strike, so this date is attested only by pieces that were never issued for use.
Proof Coin - Florin (2 Shillings), Australia, 1939 proof
Proof Coin - Florin (2 Shillings), Australia, 1939 proof
Mintage
no-coin-dated-figure 1,286,000 pieces
No document names how many coins were struck bearing the date 1939. These are report-year figures, counted as issued, and a coin dated 1939 was drawn from deliveries like these. Treating one of them as the mintage of a 1939 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,286,000 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1939 |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Australian branch memoranda and appendices
g the year were respectively : Commonwealth Issues Branch Issues £A £A Crowns ... ... ... 600 Florins ... ... 128,600 63,000 Shillings ... . .. . .. 33,600 76,000 Sixpences ... ... ... 24,800 40,000 T hreepences 31,000 48,200 Pence ... ... £128,600 x 10 coins per pound |
| 630,000 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1939 |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Australian branch memoranda and appendices
ar were respectively : Commonwealth Issues Branch Issues £A £A Crowns ... ... ... 600 Florins ... ... 128,600 63,000 Shillings ... . .. . .. 33,600 76,000 Sixpences ... ... ... 24,800 40,000 T hreepences 31,000 48,200 Pence ... ... ... 23,1 £63,000 x 10 coins per pound |
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.