1963 shilling
au-shilling-1963
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: 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, 1963 proof
Proof Coin - 1 Shilling, Australia, 1963 proof
Mintage
no-coin-dated-figure 9,800,000 pieces
No document names how many coins were struck bearing the date 1963. These are report-year figures, counted as issued, and a coin dated 1963 was drawn from deliveries like these. Treating one of them as the mintage of a 1963 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9,800,000 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1963 |
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. 1,305,800 Shillings 490,000 Sixpences 615,800 Threepences 464,400 2,876,000 Bronze Pence . 135,600 Half-pence . 43,572 179,172 Total £3,055,172 / 72 T £490,000 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.