Australian, Mexican & Canadian Silver

Australian Silver: The only big and legal tender pure silver coin that has changed its yearly design is the one troy ounce Australian Kookaburra dollar. This coin has a purity of 99.9 percent and weighs 31.365 grams and only 300,000 are made minted every year.

Mexican Silver: La Casa de Moneda de Mexico is the national mint of Mexico and the oldest mint in the Americas and was established in 1535.

Since 1983, coins are only produced in San Luis Potosi in Mexico and the most important client is the Banco de Mexico. Nonetheless, the headquarters of the mint are situated at the Museo Nacional de las Culturas.

The Mexican mint has also exported coins to Germany, Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Spain, United States of America, Guatemala, Honduras, India, Indonesia, England, Malaysia, Morocco, Nicaragua, Norway, Peru, and Venezuela, amongst others.

In 1993 the Casa de Moneda kept on producing the silver bulliion one ounce Libertad coin however they also introduced various general circulation silver coins as well as those for ten and twenty pesos and a fifty peso coin. As a mark of their well-liked worth the officials of Mexico estimated that fifty percent of the twenty peso silver coins and around eighty percent of the ten peso coins are being stockpiled and accumulated rather than circulated.

Canadian Silver: The Canadian Silver Maple Leaf is a series of silver bullion coins that have been and are issued by Canada. It has a fixed design every year and in general comes in 1 troy ounce of silver. Variation for this coin consists of proof (1989 only), privy marks, colored maple leaf (which has a dissimilar design than the usual maple leaf) and holographic augmentation. A single-issue 10-ounce version was created in 1998 to mark the 10th anniversary of the coin series. The face value of the 1-ounce coin is 5 Canadian Dollars, the maximum amongst other silver bullions. This coin has a purity of 99.99% silver, also the top in the midst of other bullions, which have a 99.90% standard. The program started in 1988 and is continues on until this day. 

In 1999, all Silver Maple Leaf coins that were issued came with a Privy Mark to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the Maple Leaf program. The subsequent year, all coins for the year 2000 showed a Privy Mark with Fireworks and the number 2000. The coin is struck by the Royal Canadian Mint.

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