Designed by Horst Hahne. The designer’s initials were removed from the coins from 1990 onwards
au-two-dollars-1999
disputed not recorded pieces
The Mint's own two publications disagree. Its website gives 27,300,000 (rounded, so uncertain by 50,000); its annual reports for 1999-00 and 2000-01 account for 35,718,000. The reports exceed the website by 8,418,000, which no rounding explains and which no gap in our extraction could produce. The catalogue does not choose between them.
| Figure | Mint | What was counted | Source, and its own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27,300,000 | RAM | final-mintage-as-published±50,000 | Royal Australian Mint, circulating coins: two dollars (Mintage Figures)
1999 | 27.3 | RAM |
| 35,718,000 | not stated | struck-in-report-year | Royal Australian Mint annual reports, circulating coin production appendices
1945,3256,2069,3290 27.297 |
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.