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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;treehugger, post: 1368244, member: 28451&quot;]I like a lot of the world bullion coins also. Let&#039;s start with the ones that will not appreciate much typically. Those would be the Silver Eagle and the Maple Leaf.</p><p>As you mentioned, the Britannia does increase in value usually. For example, the 2009 (which is my favorite design of all of them) regularly sells for about $70.00+ on ebay. Beginning this year though, the 100,000 maximum annual mintage is being lifted, so who knows what the future will hold.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Kookaburra has experienced decent appreciation. Here again, though, its 300,000 maximum annual mintage is being raised to 500,000 this year. The Panda is in the same situation in that the appreciation has been decent, but, in recent years, the mintage has gone from 600,000 to 6,000,000 to 8,000.000 this year. </p><p><br /></p><p>I like the Koala also and the purchase price is less than the Kookaburra. I think it would be worth getting some of these, as the production quality is outstanding, as with the Britannia and the Kookaburra. Also, there is a lot of attention being paid to the Kookaburra and the lunar coins (in terms of Australian bullion), but not as much to the Koala. That could bode well for the Koala in the future.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you are looking for price appreciation, I would say this. There are way too many Silver Eagles; there are many Maple Leafs and the production quality is not that great; the Canadian Wildlife series is a great idea, some of the designs are nice and they have a low mintage, but production quality is an issue again here; Libertads are very well-designed and are generally of good quality, but it seems collectors don&#039;t really chase them as they do other bullion, which again could be a good thing for this coin in the future; Philharmonics are boring and quality control is really lacking; Somalian Elephants have good designs, but also quality issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>In general, if I wanted to collect world bullion for appreciation purposes as well as eye appeal, I would focus on the Koala, the Kookaburra, the Australian Lunar, the Britannia, the Panda and the Libertad.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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