au-penny-1964
disputed 39,134,400 pieces
The reports carry 3 different figures for this coin, all tied to the date it bore: 1,574,400, 39,134,400, 10,000,800. They come from different statements in different years and this catalogue does not choose between them. The figure shown above is the one a second, independent extraction also reached, or failing that the one whose arithmetic checks; every reading is listed with the words it came from.
| Figure | Mint | What was counted | Source, and its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1,574,400 | Melbourne | struck-dated | Reports of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, Australian branch sections
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| 39,134,400 | Melbourne | struck-dated | Reports of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, Australian branch sections
Pence £163,060—39,134,400 pieces—all dated 1964 |
| 10,000,800 | Melbourne | struck-dated | Reports of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, Australian branch sections
Australian bronze coin—£41,670 in pence and $1,306,000 in cents, is. |
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 that the whole of this delivery bore the date 1964. It remains one report year's delivery; coin of this date struck in another year would be additional.
| Pieces | Mint | What it covers | The report's own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39,134,400 | Melbourne | the whole delivery | the reportPence £163,060—39,134,400 pieces—all dated 1964 |
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.