Royal Mint mintage figures

[Fivepoundfred]

I was trying to find the mintage numbers for a gold proof commemorative five pound coin and looked on the RM website page - Dated UK Commemorative Coin Sales

Below is information provided by the RM in response to a FOI request for mintage figures

For information and perhaps clarity the term “mintage” for a particular coin, as applied by The Royal Mint, means sales of that particular coin less returns. It is critical, we think, from both a collector and valuation perspective and also to preserve the integrity of any secondary market, that there is transparency as to the number of coins, of a particular type, in the market, that could potentially be bought or sold. This definition of mintage supports these objectives

The RM do not publish how many returns they receive of a particular coin (or what they do with them ) so how can you ever know the true number of coins that are out there in the market ?

The RM also said in the FOI

For Commemorative coins:

We may on occasion mint coins after the applicable release year but only up to confirmed maximum issuance limits.

Which further confuses the matter, do they then adjust the sales figures accordingly ?

[5huggy]

Im still fighting with the "bureaucrats" over Silver mintage's of 10oz and Valiants  -I will keep TSF informed as and when info is updated!

I had similar response as you @Fivepoundfred I am now on stage 3 of fisticuffs 🤣