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Message:: [QUOTE="Paddy54, post: 2093474, member: 19250"]Well I have one of these not the one pictured , but the kookaburra one issued at the  Australia  Pavilion  in Shanghai  World Expo 2010. I do collect bullion   coins,and one series  I collect   is the Australian  kookaburra .At the time the only place you could buy this coin or oz. Bullion was in Shanghai . A mintage of 30,000 and price was the reason I purchased . As far as your question  Tommy of spending  well no bullion  coins fit a vending machine . And why would they?It's   a ounce of .9999 silver for the most part worth spot.However  ASE, kookaburra , maple leafs are more so works of art then just plain bars of silver.And yes it's  just bullion  but only 30,000 produced.I also have collected   privy marked bullion. Low mintage  coins to commemorate  an event.I've   only seen one ASE  with the privy mark USA produced for the Berlin  world expo of money. They are extremely  rare.  And are the only ones I know of produced by the US Mint ever!Now Australia  had the mold and airtight ' s why not produce another series  if the sales are there?To each their own I like my 1 oz. Map of Australia  and I like my kookaburra  coins as well as maple leafs,and ASE. Sorry for the bad picture  but taken quickly  after a long day with a pad cam.These were never offered  by the Perth mint for retail sales. Only at the expo only in Shanghai  China.[/QUOTE]