au-florin-1941
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, 1941 circulating
Coin - Florin (2 Shillings), Australia, 1941 circulating
no-coin-dated-figure 7,534,000 pieces
No document names how many coins were struck bearing the date 1941. These are report-year figures, counted as issued, and a coin dated 1941 was drawn from deliveries like these. Treating one of them as the mintage of a 1941 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,984,000 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1941 |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Australian branch memoranda and appendices
supplied by the Branch Mint during the year were respectively :--~ Commonwealth Branch 111th {A f, A Florins 698,400 753,400 Shillings 69,000 69,000 Sixpences ... ... ... 63,800 72,800 Threepences ... ... ... 94,800 94,800 Pence 43,620 9,4 £698,400 x 10 coins per pound |
| 7,534,000 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1941 |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Australian branch memoranda and appendices
d by the Branch Mint during the year were respectively :--~ Commonwealth Branch 111th {A f, A Florins 698,400 753,400 Shillings 69,000 69,000 Sixpences ... ... ... 63,800 72,800 Threepences ... ... ... 94,800 94,800 Pence 43,620 9,420 Half— £753,400 x 10 coins per pound |
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.