1910 threepence
au-threepence-1910
A coin of this date, photographed
Museums Victoria holds 4 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, specimen.
Coin - Threepence, Australia, 1910 circulating
Specimen Coin - Threepence, Australia, 1910 specimen
Coin - Threepence, Australia, 1910 circulating
Coin - Threepence, Australia, 1910 circulating
Mintage
no-coin-dated-figure 840,000 pieces
No document names how many coins were struck bearing the date 1910. These are report-year figures, counted as issued, and a coin dated 1910 was drawn from deliveries like these. Treating one of them as the mintage of a 1910 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 840,000 | Sydney | issued what the Sydney mint issued during report year 1910 |
Reports of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint, Australian branch sections
in ttorins, "2,2001. in shillings, 28.100]. in sixpeuces, and 10,500]. £10,500 x 80 coins per pound |
What can be said instead
No document names a figure for coins dated 1910. The reports do say what the branch mints delivered in the report years around it, and a coin of this date had to come from one of those deliveries.
| Report year | As the report prints it | In pieces | Mint |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910 | 10,500]. | 840,000 | Sydney |
So at most 840,000 pieces can bear the date 1910, if Coins dated 1910 were struck in report year 1910 or 1911.
The reports describe dates lagging by a year, but not always by only one: the 1939 report records that Melbourne went on using 1936 dies throughout 1937. Where a date persisted, the true figure can exceed this ceiling.
Where the usual figure comes from. A figure near 840,000 for 1910 is what you get by taking the report year 1910 delivery and treating it as the coin’s date. That is not a guess about what other sources do: on fourteen penny years where a widely used public guide could be checked against these reports, five reproduce exactly as the pound figure times its coins per pound with the last three digits dropped, the residuals being 200, 400, 600, 800 and 800. The other nine differ by millions, which is what happens when the report year and the coin’s date genuinely come apart. The working is here.
The date these coins bore
Almost every figure in any coin catalogue counts a report year. This one does not: the Mint stated, in prose, which date the coins carried. That is what a collector means by a mintage, and it is recorded almost nowhere.
The report for 1911 states that these coins bear the date 1910 although they were struck and issued later. It is a PART of that year's coinage, not the whole of what carries this date.
| Pieces | Mint | What it covers | The report's own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6,000,000 | not stated | part of a year | the reportthe threepeuccs for Australia bear the effigy of King: Edward and are therefore dated 1910, although 11 actually lssued during 1911. |
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.