au-penny-1930
No mintage figure is recorded for this issue yet.
No document names a figure for coins dated 1930. 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 | Pieces delivered | Mint |
|---|---|---|
| 1931 | 494,400 | Melbourne |
So at most 494,400 pieces can bear the date 1930, if Coins dated 1930 were struck in report year 1930 or 1931.
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.
A variety is a claim about a coin, and claims differ in how well they are evidenced. The grade beside each says what kind of source stands behind it. This catalogue prints no valuations, so nothing here tells you what a variety is worth.
| Variety | How you tell it apart | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930 penny, English obverse / London reverse | English obverse paired with London reverse | scholarly
a numismatic society, museum catalogue or archival study |
source |
| 1930 penny, Indian obverse / London reverse | Indian obverse paired with London reverse | scholarly
a numismatic society, museum catalogue or archival study |
source |
| 1930 specimen penny, Indian obverse / London reverse | Indian obverse; London reverse; 3 overdate and reverse denticle fault on sufficiently sharp examples | scholarly
a numismatic society, museum catalogue or archival study |
source Not a numerical disagreement: source reports “struck 12 specimen pieces” but “only six are known to exist”; production and known survival are different measures. |
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.