An impression of a platypus designed and sculpted by Stuart Devlin
au-twenty-cents-1981
summed-from-components 165,500,000 pieces
Published as 3 separate mint figures for this year; the total is their sum. Published in millions, so the figure is precise to +/- 50000 pieces, not to the unit.
| Figure | Mint | What was counted | Source, and its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50,000,000 | RCM | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: twenty cents (Mintage Figures)
1981 | 50.0 | RCM |
| 50,000,000 | RMLL | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: twenty cents (Mintage Figures)
1981 | 50.0 | RMLL |
| 65,500,000 | RAM | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: twenty cents (Mintage Figures)
1981 | 65.5 | RAM |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 “3½ claw” Royal Canadian Mint type | First claw nearest platypus under 2 is half missing | hobbyist
a blog or forum |
source RAM primary page [200] separately corroborates 1981 output: “1981 50.0 RCM 1981 50.0 RMLL 1981 65.5 RAM”; it does not state the claw diagnostic. |
| 1981 20c on Hong Kong $2 planchet | 20c design on wavy-flan Hong Kong $2 blank | scholarly
a numismatic society, museum catalogue or archival study |
source |
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.