Denmark 25 Ore 1981 mintage question

Hello,

looking at the following coin (Denmark 25 Ore 1981)

 the mintage for 1981 seems very low in comparison to the frequency of the coin:

N#1411

I don't have access to a Danish catalogue but Krause says the same low mintage…

Does anyone have more information please?

Thanks!

I took a look here:

moentkatalog_dk_2f1754640e00dfae4155545dd23d2ab8_p_P.pdf

but they don't give the mintages!

Maybe Krause dropped a zero between revisions?  Anyone have SCWC from 2000?

in the 44 edt, the oldest I've kept

Looks like a zero has disappeared….

Thank you,

somewhere I have a Krause Catalog from 1986 or 1987. I'll have a look in that one!

I just had a look in my 1987 Krause and the montage for 1981 is indeed 1.427(.000).

Still seems strange considering the frequency of 12%.

On the other hand I now have a coin from a relatively scarce year 😁

I've just sent the question to the Kongelige Moent. Let's see if I get an answer.

I found this site confirming the SCWC (Numista) mintage

http://coinz.eu/dnk/1_dkk/12_25_ore_1973_1988_danish_coins_en.php

This was the very fast answer:

Dear Ole Sjoelund 

Thank you for your inquiry. 

Danmarks Nationalbank does not disclose the number. 

On 1 October 2008, the 25-øren ceased to be valid as a means of payment, and as of On 1 October 2011, it was finally invalidated – also in relation to exchange at the National Bank. 

With best regards 

Jeannie Jensen 

PA, Secretariat and Communication 

Denmark's national bank 

Langelinie Allé 47

So no mintage from the source, sorry

Sjoelund

…

Danmarks Nationalbank does not disclose the number. 

On 1 October 2008, the 25-øren ceased to be valid as a means of payment, and as of On 1 October 2011, it was finally invalidated – also in relation to exchange at the National Bank. 

This is actually hilarious. The mintage of a coin that is neither valid as means of payment and was even invalidated almost 13 years ago is a “state” (or at least a corporate) secret. Yes, that makes sense – not.

Secondly, where did the SCWC get the mintage figures? They must have gotten them somewhere reliable. 

I think, the woman who answered the Sjoelund's email was merely too lazy to dig into the archives. Danmarks Nationalbank did publish coin production figures until 2014 (I have figures for 2004/2005-2013). Consequently, they weren't a secret for many years.

I just formally reject as no admin work is needed here :-)