au-sovereign-1925
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, 1925 circulating
Coin - Sovereign, New South Wales, Australia, 1925 circulating
Coin - Sovereign, Western Australia, Australia, 1925 circulating
no-coin-dated-figure 5,632,000 pieces
No document names how many coins were struck bearing the date 1925. These are report-year figures, counted as struck-in-report-year, and a coin dated 1925 was drawn from deliveries like these. Treating one of them as the mintage of a 1925 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5,632,000 | Sydney | struck-in-report-year what the Sydney mint struck-in-report-year during report year 1925 |
Reports of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, Australian branch sections
given in the Superintendent’s Memorandum, was 5,632,0001. in £5,632,000 x 1 coins per pound |
| 3,312,079 | Melbourne | struck-in-report-year what the Melbourne mint struck-in-report-year during report year 1925 |
Reports of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, Australian branch sections
lligi goldncoinage1 for 1195‘) has amounted to 3,312 0791. all in £3,312,079 x 1 coins per pound |
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.