1940 sixpence
au-sixpence-1940
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: circulating.
Coin - Sixpence, Australia, 1940 circulating
Coin - Sixpence, Australia, 1940 circulating
Mintage
no-coin-dated-figure 2,576,000 pieces
No document names how many coins were struck bearing the date 1940. These are report-year figures, counted as issued, and a coin dated 1940 was drawn from deliveries like these. Treating one of them as the mintage of a 1940 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,576,000 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1940 |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Australian branch memoranda and appendices
{A Florins ... ... ... ... 874,600 841,000 Shillings ... ... ... ... 87,200 38,000 Sixpences ... ... . .. ... 64,400 40,000 Threepences ... ... ... ... 63,400 48,000 Pence ... ... ... ... 23,650 17,030 Halfpence ... ... ... ... 8,830 4,780 £64,400 x 40 coins per pound |
| 1,600,000 | not stated | issued what the Commonwealth Treasury issued across the whole of Australia during 1940 |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, Australian branch memoranda and appendices
ins ... ... ... ... 874,600 841,000 Shillings ... ... ... ... 87,200 38,000 Sixpences ... ... . .. ... 64,400 40,000 Threepences ... ... ... ... 63,400 48,000 Pence ... ... ... ... 23,650 17,030 Halfpence ... ... ... ... 8,830 4,780 1,122,0 £40,000 x 40 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.