1940 florin
au-florin-1940
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: circulating.
Coin - Florin (2 Shillings), Australia, 1940 circulating
Coin - Florin (2 Shillings), Australia, 1940 circulating
Mintage
no-coin-dated-figure 8,746,000 pieces
No document names how many coins were struck bearing the date 1940. These are report-year figures, counted as issued, and a coin dated 1940 was drawn from deliveries like these. Treating one of them as the mintage of a 1940 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8,746,000 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1940 |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Australian branch memoranda and appendices
rne Mint during the year were respectively :— Commonwealth Branch Issues Issues {A {A Florins ... ... ... ... 874,600 841,000 Shillings ... ... ... ... 87,200 38,000 Sixpences ... ... . .. ... 64,400 40,000 Threepences ... ... ... ... 63,40 £874,600 x 10 coins per pound |
| 8,410,000 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1940 |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Australian branch memoranda and appendices
during the year were respectively :— Commonwealth Branch Issues Issues {A {A Florins ... ... ... ... 874,600 841,000 Shillings ... ... ... ... 87,200 38,000 Sixpences ... ... . .. ... 64,400 40,000 Threepences ... ... ... ... 63,400 48,000 £841,000 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.