1961 shilling
au-shilling-1961
A coin of this date, photographed
Museums Victoria holds one 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: proof. None of these is a circulating strike, so this date is attested only by pieces that were never issued for use.
Proof Coin - 1 Shilling, Australia, 1961 proof
Mintage
no-coin-dated-figure 30,552,000 pieces
No document names how many coins were struck bearing the date 1961. These are report-year figures, counted as issued, and a coin dated 1961 was drawn from deliveries like these. Treating one of them as the mintage of a 1961 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30,552,000 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1961 |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Australian branch memoranda and appendices
coin from the Commonwealth Treasury for the whole of Australia were : . £ £ Silver Florins 890,600 Shillings 1,527,600 Sixpences 181,600 Threepences ... ... ... ... ... 252,200 —— 2,852,000 Bronze Pence 118,845 Half-pence 36,564 —— 155,409 £1,527,600 x 20 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.