1913 sovereign
au-sovereign-1913
A coin of this date, photographed
Museums Victoria holds 3 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, Victoria, Australia, 1913 circulating
Coin - Sovereign, New South Wales, Australia, 1913 circulating
Coin - Sovereign, Western Australia, Australia, 1913 circulating
Mintage
no-coin-dated-figure 2,469,257 pieces
No document names how many coins were struck bearing the date 1913. These are report-year figures, on 2 different bases (issued and unstated), and a coin dated 1913 was drawn from deliveries like these. Treating one of them as the mintage of a 1913 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2,249,000 | Sydney | issued what the Sydney mint issued during report year 1913 |
Reports of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, Australian branch sections
There were issued 2249,0007. in sovereigns of an average £2,249,000 x 1 coins per pound |
| 2,469,257 | Melbourne | unstated what the Melbourne mint unstated during report year 1913 |
Reports of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, Australian branch sections
2,469,257l., also all in sovereigns. The average weight of the. £2,469,257 x 1 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.