Anyone who orders one of these things will probably regret it. Because, though it mentions it nowhere on their glossy double-sided advertisement they mailed out at random, what you are actually agreeing to sign up for when you order this coin is to have your address and credit card details added to one of their "coin of the month" programs. They will continue to send you coins, at very much more than $10 each, until and unless you ask them to stop. Their target market are the people who are too nice or too timid to ask them to stop. Their target market are certainly not actual coin collectors; their advertisements appear in mailboxes, newspapers and popular magazines - everywhere, in fact except in the coin magazines.
Don't be fooled; "Macquarie Mint" is no more a "mint" than you or I am. They're the direct-marketing coin-selling arm of a large southern coin dealer. Their coins have, as far as I can determine, actually been made in China or some other offshore locale. You'll notice that, although the blurb that comes with the "coin" waffles on about the Australian fighting forces, the word "Anzac" is never mentioned; that's because there are laws in this country against selling cheap imported junk with "Anzac" stamped on it.
When they first launched this "$10 for $10" scheme back in 2011, the first coin they issued was "from" Nauru. Which was a complete and utter fabrication, since Nauru does not and has not issued its own coinage. I still have an e-mail from the Secretary for Justice and Border Control of Nauru, confirming this. The 2012 and 2013 coins are "from" Kiribati. I hope this time they actually talked to someone in Kiribati and secured authentic permission to issue these "legal tender coins". And I hope some of the seigniorage from the sale of these "coins" actually goes to the Kiribati government, as it rightfully should; our Pacific Island neighbours need all the financial assistance from us they can get.
