1927 Shilling Mintage Query

The Royal Mint Report for 1927 (page 57) does not break down shillings by design type. It just says "Shilling... 9,262,344". If individual die record usage within specific years was recorded, it does not seem to have been made public; if it had been, surely one of the catalogue references would have noted this.

It does mention, on page 1 of the Report, that the new designs were approved on 3rd November 1927, which is quite late in the year, so logically, unless the Mint had been holding out on producing shillings until the new design was released, then there should be more "old design" than "new design" shillings in that year. Indeed, page 2 of the Report implies that for at least some denominations, the only examples of the new designs issued with the 1927 date were to be found in the "specimen" sets. I particularly like the Mint Master's astonishment that 9,492 sets had been sold so far, smashing all previous set sales.

Probably the same for the 1926 coins too then.