anyone else receive a macquarie mint gallipoli coin offer in the mail?

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Ag bullet

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received a 'strictly limited offer' from the macquarie mint today. they are promoting a $10 face value silver coin commemorating the 100th gallipoli landing anniversary.

cost is $10 including postage.
coin stats are-
mintage- 150 000
diameter- 26mm
weight- 10 grams
country of issue- kiribati (legal tender there)
denomination- $10
purity- .500

$10 for 5 grams of silver. sorry, not for me
 
I got a flyer too, this must be about the third one in the series. http://www.macquariemint.com/TermsConditions.aspx actually, looks like they have done a few, I don't remember getting those flyers!

Members of the coin club keep getting them too.

There was trouble over the first one they brought out...

A few hours later, I received an e-mail from the Secretary for Justice and Border Control for the Republic of Nauru.

It turns out that the Nauruan government has previously noticed and been concerned about these advertisements. He'd either heard or found out about the interview and wished to confirm that these coins are not, repeat not, issued and authorised by the Government of Nauru, nor by the Bank of Nauru which (as lordty pointed out above) has been in liquidation since 2009. As I had suspected, but could not confirm in my researches, Nauru actually has no legal basis in its Constitution or Law that allows it to issue its own coinage.
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http://www.coincommunity.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=95813
 
What! You mean you aren't going to pay $10 for a $10 coin?
You must be crazy!
Yep, I got one as well and threw it in the bin.
 
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