The whole series: 7 dated issues, each opening to the document its figure came from, plus 34 branch mint production records.
This coin has a page of its own, because the report states the date these coins bore.
This coin has a page of its own, because the report states the date these coins bore.
This coin has a page of its own, because the report states the date these coins bore.
single-source 17,151,405 pieces
One of the few figures the Royal Mint's reports tie to the date borne by the coin rather than to a report year.
| Figure | Mint | What was counted | Source, and its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17,151,405 | London | struck-dated | Reports of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, Australian branch sections
During the year 8,180,061 sixpences, 17,151,405 threepences, |
single-source 4,592,000 pieces
One of the few figures the Royal Mint's reports tie to the date borne by the coin rather than to a report year.
| Figure | Mint | What was counted | Source, and its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4,592,000 | Melbourne | struck-dated | Reports of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, Australian branch sections
shillings, 61,2001, sixpences 55,7001, threepences 57,4001. and New |
This coin has a page of its own, because 1 documented variety.
This coin has a page of its own, because 1 documented variety.
Every year above opens to the documents behind its figure. 5 of 7 also have a page of their own, where there was more to say than a row can hold.
A variety is a claim about a coin, and claims differ in how well they are evidenced. The grade beside each says what kind of source stands behind it. This catalogue prints no valuations, so nothing here tells you what a variety is worth.
| Variety | How you tell it apart | Evidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1922/1 overdate threepence | Clear 1 beneath the second 2 in date | trade
a dealer, auction house or grading service |
source Dealer claims “no more than 900” without a census; excluded from population. Manufacture disagreement: Downies [200] “one of the 1921 dies had a ‘2’ punched into the date”; NGC [200] “the last figure on a working hub was simply hammered flat and a new figure was roughly re-entered” |
| 1934/3 overdate threepence | 1934 tool derived from an unused 1933 master die | trade
a dealer, auction house or grading service |
source |
These are not mintages by date, and this catalogue will not print them as if they were. They are what the Sydney, Melbourne and Perth branches reported striking, delivering or issuing during a report year. A single year's delivery routinely carried two dates: the 1958 report says florins and sixpences to a stated value "were dated 1957; the remainder of the coin delivered being dated 1958".
34 records. 29 of them are recorded in pounds sterling rather than in coins, because that is how the mints kept the books. 4 name the date borne by the coin. On 1 occasion the report states the same output both ways, in money and in coins, and the two agree exactly once converted: that is the pound ledger showing itself.
| Report year | Mint | As printed | Unit | In pieces | What was counted | The report's own words |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | Sydney | £10,500 | pounds | 840,000 (£10,500 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | in ttorins, "2,2001. in shillings, 28.100]. in sixpeuces, and 10,500]. |
| 1925 | Melbourne | £37,800 | pounds | 3,024,000 (£37,800 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | :);),;(l()l. : Sixpences 54,4lllll. ; threepences 37,800]. ’ ’ |
| 1925 | Sydney | £4,000 | pounds | 320,000 (£4,000 x 80 coins per pound) | unstated | October and, with the exception of about 4,000l. in threepences, this |
| 1927 | Melbourne | £84,000 | pounds | 6,720,000 (£84,000 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | 1; ‘1 threepences, 84,0001: viz), :_'1 ~ 1 1ngs,70,8001.; s1xpences,89,801[,; Much care was given to making the special issue of Canberra ‘1.1,1f ‘ |
| 1928 | Melbourne | £62,600 | pounds | 5,008,000 (£62,600 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | threepences, 62,6001, Viz. :—— |
| 1934 | Melbourne | £20,200 | pounds | 1,616,000 (£20,200 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | 20,2001, Viz. :—— |
| 1935 | Melbourne | £35,000 | pounds | 2,800,000 (£35,000 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | sixpences, 9,8001; threepences, 35,0001, and New Guinea shillings |
| 1936 | Melbourne | £45,000 | pounds | 3,600,000 (£45,000 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | Sixpences, 45,0001. ; threepences, 45,0001. ; and New Guinea shillings |
| 1937 | Melbourne | £57,400 | pounds | 4,592,000 (£57,400 x 80 coins per pound) | issueddated 1936 | shillings, 61,2001, sixpences 55,7001, threepences 57,4001. and New |
| 1938 | Melbourne | £57,000 | pounds | 4,560,000 (£57,000 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | shillings, 742001., sixpences, 71,600l., threepences 570001., and New |
| 1947 | unstated | £47,000 | pounds | 3,760,000 (£47,000 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | Threepences ... 47000 |
| 1948 | Melbourne | 36,000,000 | pieces | unstated | some [thirty-six million] threepences and thirty-two million pennies have |
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| 1948 | Melbourne | £327,600 | pounds | 26,208,000 (£327,600 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | £206,600; Sixpences, £39,600 and Threepences, £327,600. |
| 1948 | unstated | £332,400 | pounds | 26,592,000 (£332,400 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | Threepences 332,400 |
| 1949 | Melbourne | 60,000,000 | pieces | unstated | quaternary alloy. In the last thirty months some sixty million three- |
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| 1949 | Melbourne | £330,000 | pounds | 26,400,000 (£330,000 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | pences £330,000. |
| 1950 | Melbourne | £443,200 | pounds | 35,456,000 (£443,200 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | pences £443,200. |
| 1950 | unstated | £445,400 | pounds | 35,632,000 (£445,400 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | Threepences . . . . .. ... 445,400 |
| 1951 | London | £500,000 | pounds | 40,000,000 (£500,000 x 80 coins per pound) | unstated | gladly accepted orders for £500,000 in sixpences, £500,000 in three- |
| 1951 | London | 17,151,405 | pieces | struck-in-report-yeardated 1951 | During the year 8,180,061 sixpences, 17,151,405 threepences, |
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| 1951 | Melbourne | £206,400 | pounds | 16,512,000 (£206,400 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | threepences, £206,400. |
| 1952 | London | 22,848,595 | pieces | struck-in-report-year | Ian1df22,848.,595 threepences in .511ver and 9,480,000 pence and 3192011580 |
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| 1952 | Melbourne | £167,400 | pounds | 13,392,000 (£167,400 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | pences, £52,800 ; threepences, £167,400. |
| 1952 | unstated | £504,700 | pounds | 40,376,000 (£504,700 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | Threepences . . . . . . 504,700 |
| 1953 | Melbourne | £110,800 | pounds | 8,864,000 (£110,800 x 80 coins per pound) | issueddated 1952 | The coin issued until the 7th May, namely £110,800 Of threepences and |
| 1953 | Melbourne | £200,800 | pounds | 16,064,000 (£200,800 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | £200,800. 5 GI |
| 1954 | Melbourne | £28,800 | pounds | 2,304,000 (£28,800 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | £28,800. |
| 1955 | Melbourne | £343,200 | pounds | 27,456,000 (£343,200 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | £343,200. |
| 1956 | Melbourne | £147,400 | pounds | 11,792,000 (£147,400 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | £147,400. |
| 1957 | Melbourne | £333,800 | pounds | 26,704,000 (£333,800 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | £333,800, the total number of pieces delivered being 62,402,000. 0f the above |
| 1957 | Melbourne | £29,400 | pounds | 2,352,000 (£29,400 x 80 coins per pound) | struck-dateddated 1956 | coin, sixpences to the value of £61,600 and threepences to the value of £29,400 |
| 1958 | Melbourne | £140,600 | pounds | 11,248,000 (£140,600 x 80 coins per pound) | issued | £140,600, and pence, £41,720, the total number of pieces dellvered being |
| 1964 | Melbourne | £254,000 | pounds | 20,320,000 (£254,000 x 80 coins per pound) | deliveredstated both ways | Australian silver coin—threepences—to the value of £254,000, i.e., 20,320,000 |
| 1964 | Melbourne | 20,320,000 | pieces | 20,320,000 (£254,000 x 80 coins per pound) | deliveredstated both ways | Australian silver coin—threepences—to the value of £254,000, i.e., 20,320,000 |