1938 halfpenny
au-halfpenny-1938
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 - Halfpenny, Australia, 1938 circulating
Coin - Halfpenny, Australia, 1938 circulating
Mintage
no-coin-dated-figure 5,174,400 pieces
No document names how many coins were struck bearing the date 1938. These are report-year figures, counted as issued, and a coin dated 1938 was drawn from deliveries like these. Treating one of them as the mintage of a 1938 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5,174,400 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1938 |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Australian branch memoranda and appendices
. 67,400 Sixpences ... ... ... 62,400 Threepences 56,200 428,200 BRONZE. £ Pence 32,720 Halfpence ... ... ... 10,780 43,500 Total 471,700 I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient Servant, (I T. CLUCAS, The Right Honourable Defiuty Master. £10,780 x 480 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.