au-penny-1948
single-source 6,748,800 pieces
One of the few figures the Royal Mint's reports tie to the date borne by the coin rather than to a report year.
| Figure | Mint | What was counted | Source, and its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,748,800 | Melbourne | struck-dated | Reports of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, Australian branch sections
dated 1948. namely the whole of the sixpenny coinage and £28,120 of |
Almost every figure in any coin catalogue counts a report year. This one does not: the Mint stated, in prose, which date the coins carried. That is what a collector means by a mintage, and it is recorded almost nowhere.
The report states the date these coins BORE, which is what a collector means by a mintage and what almost no source records. But it is a PART of one report year's delivery, not the whole coinage of 1948: the same report says the remainder carried a different date. Coins of this date struck in other years are not included here.
| Pieces | Mint | What it covers | The report's own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,748,800 | Melbourne | part of a year | the reportCoins minted prior to this were dated 1948. namely the whole of the sixpenny coinage and £28,120 of the penny issue. £28,120 x 240 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.