1890 sovereign
au-sovereign-1890
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: circulating.
Coin - Sovereign, New South Wales, Australia, 1890 circulating
Mintage
summed-from-components 5,281,537 pieces
Australia's whole coinage of this denomination for 1890, summed across 2 branches (Melbourne, Sydney). Every part counts the same thing, struck-in-report-year, which is what makes the sum meaningful; it is still a report-year quantity and not a count of coins bearing the date 1890. 2 parts are POSITIONAL readings of a table the transcription flattens, with nothing to check against, so the sum is no firmer than that. The branch figures are on their own pages.
| Figure | Mint | What was counted | Source, and its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,473,537 | Melbourne | struck-in-report-year what Melbourne struck during a report year, not the number of coins bearing this datepositional reading |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, branch mint gold coinage tables
and those from other Colonies greater. The coinage of the year 1890 amounted to 2,473,537Z., all in sovereigns. The coinage of 1889 was 2,732,590L, showing a decrease for 1890 of 259,053l. T |
| 2,808,000 | Sydney | struck-in-report-year what Sydney struck during a report year, not the number of coins bearing this datepositional reading |
Reports of the Deputy Master of the Royal Mint, branch mint gold coinage tables
he Mint, and more than 1,000,000]. above 'the average. 7 The issues amounted to 2,808,000]. in sovereigns, and 115,475l. in gold bullion, no half—sovereigns being coined during the year. 35, |
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.