Also, leave your reason for your preference if you have one. I like them all but my favorite is the Panda because It looks so terribly nice.

I went with the ASE because I own more of them then I do any other bullion coin but I do have to say that the pandas are quite nice!

Wow, no love for Canada. They have a very nice coin. I'm sure someone will go to bat.
[update]: I'm glad someone went to bat, good job.

OOOOoo, ASE and Panda are tied. I'll be excited to see the results tomorrow.
[update]: I like giving the play by play, as I made this message someone voted for ASE, this puts the ASE ahead by 17%. You can literally feel the tension in the room, who will walk away with this win? We'll see tomorrow.

Could you post some pics of each of the three? I'd love to see them side by side.

Sure! Just remember, especially with the pandas that there is much more artwork out there but I'll post what I can find.


Try not to go based solely off of these images. I just grabbed what google could find. So there may be some unfair representation.

They're all beautiful but I went with the ASE. I've always loved Liberty Walking Halfs -- used to get them in change as a kid. I wish we had more classic Liberty type designs on our coins.

Before I can vote I have to ask, "Which one can I get for the least premium over melt?". Bullion is bullion.

I went with the Walking Liberty, maybe it's because I am a little prejudice or that I was considering a 2007 Silver Eagle Proof. Maybe I can be convinced to get a uncirculated 2007 coin before they go away.

So very true.

However, I like the Maple Leaf. Just looks so clean and purdy!
However I need a ASE first for the type set.

I think that it would be a toss up for me beacuse they are both beautiful.
If I had to pick one I would have to say American Eagles.








But Canada tones really cool

My favourite silver coin is the Anglo-Saxon penny, but modern society calls and I went with the Eagle thanks to Art!!

Clive.

I like the Maple. Looks gorgeous and like a quintessential coin. (don't have me explain what I mean... I can't)

Personally I am not a big fan of royalty on coinage so I went with the ASE, but my favorite design has to be the Mexican onza/Libertad, that's a gorgeous design! Lettered edge extra thick from 1982-89, reeded edge from 1990 on, and redesigned to reduce thickness and increase diameter to be the same as the ASE from 1996 on. Here is an image of the first type:

I like the ASE and have a few, but the Panda is real close. I als have 1 MapleLeaf and I love the leaf pattern, but the other side is kind of plain.

Yeah, I agree, it is a bit plain.

I voted the ASE for one reason only. They are the easiest to liquidate when the time comes.
All three are beautiful.

The ASE, I love the design of the Walking Liberty and the Eagle.

none of them do it for me to be hoenst but ASE for the pretty nice walking lady and the eagle aint half bad .







The silver coins I like the most are the ones that are worth FAAAAR more than ASW

For me, I would go with ASE overall, SML (reverse) if it's just one side.

Pandas IMO aren't really a bullion coin, but rather a pricey coin that happens to be made in specific weights.

I can't stand pandas, I went for the Eagle as it is a true collectors' coin

I have to say I'm very surprised at the result, and it makes me happy to know that I mainly own ASEs! I would like to see more votes just to see if the landslide continues. Does anyone have any other coins that they think would be a good contender in this category, like the libertad?

Yeah, as much as I like the SAE, I would vote for the Libertad/Onza over it. The reverse you show is one of my favorite designs and the obverse is, of course, typically beautiful.

I agree, I go for the better looking woman, no matter what her nationality:) Si, porque La Mejicana es muy bonita

They ask an unreasonable price for the new libertad in Germany but my vote goes with the libertad
and the ASE as second
I do have old libertads though

I had to go with the Maple leaf. I don't like the lack of imagination evident when you rehash designs. The Walker was great, but this is now. The pandas are cute but they don't represent anything and I do like allegory.

I voted for the ASE because it is the 'American Way' ?

Actually, of the ASE's I own, I have never taken them from from their capsules and actually held them in my hand.
It was when I got my first Morgan Dollar that I learned to like real silver. The beauty, the history, and the weight of the coin in my hand made me feel like I had real money.
For me it is a toss up... used Morgans or shiny mint proof ASE's.... hmmm.... don't think I can truly say which is my favorite.

Corky

Well, people who prefer "the European Way" will soon have an alternative. As far as I know, the Austrian Mint will present a "Silver Phil" at the World Money Fair next month. That would be a 1 oz silver coin, designed like the gold Vienna Philharmonic pieces.



This is the gold piece which has been issued since 1989. Well, imagine that design in silver ...

Christian

A country which historically has produced some very lovely coinage cannot do any better than re-hashing a design used on the gold?



Couldn't something like this fraulein grace such a coin?

It is hard to beat the Swiss with their vreneli girl or the french with their Marianne girl so they are not trying

The Austrian Mint is not exactly known for "modern" designs but I don't think they are that "backward oriented". As for when the coin will actually be available, and what the design will actually be like - well, we will see. But the Philharmonic bullion pieces are very well known ...

Christian

The Marianne is one of my favourite LMU coins. As for the Swiss, I have a slight preference for the Helvetia, and when they come I will post images.

At least they have been more creative than their Germanic brethren that produced that lovely television design a few years back

As for Marianne and Helvetia: Yes, both are neat, except neither of the two is a silver bullion coin ...

(Edit: Below is an image of the new Austrian 1 oz piece.)

Christian

I am going to have to get the TV coin sometime, it is a classic of under-design. I expect it might be a sleeper.

Dull but not bullion either, I'm afraid. (Should not be hard to get it cheap though. ) In fact, this Austrian piece will be the first silver bullion euro coin. And I just read that the bank which announced the Silver Phil ahead of time may have violated some NDA, hehe.

Christian

I'm giving a "shout out" for the Canadian maple leaf the only one I own but I think it's a great coin.

BTW, why No Britannia's???? They've had some great designs for those over the years, 2007 is my personal favourite (missing years are where designs may repeat):

2008


2007


2005


2004


2003


2001

Wow. Those brittanias are really nice

Glad you like them, I only own the 2007 one, need to get the 2008 & previous ones, BTW for the missing years (of the 2000's anyway) the design repeated is the one shown for 2004, I think

Oops missed one:

1997 & 1999


Standing Britannia is used for 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004 & 2006

Oops missed one:

1997 & 1999

Oh my oh my, that Brit is a beauty. I might even be tempted to trade in one of my 2007 proof silver eagles for one of those.
I guess until you see all the coins that are out there yet to see, it is impossible to say which one is the nicest, prettiest, most handsome, most artistic, and has the best quality of minting results.

Yes, there are a lot of cute coins... pandas for one... but they don't tug at my heart like the Morgans and ASE's. (and now that 97 & 99 brit coin you showed us)...where will it all end!

Corky

They have had many great designs, but this one with the look of the British Lion is a classic. I need that one.

Agreed, those Britannia designs are very nice. Well, the 2003 piece is quite different - also a good design too but it does not really fit in well. The others are tempting ... also because it's always the same theme but in many different styles. If I collected silver bullion coins, I would probably get those. But I don't.

Christian

That design was the one that won it for me, once I get payed at the end of the month (our firm pays us the last working day or December, which was 21st December and we don't get payed until the 31st) I shall seek out the rest.



Yeah the 2003 is an oddity but I find it rather striking, unusual to see a close up portrait of Britannia herself.

Wow, that '07 is NICE!! OK, back to ebay!!

The Britannias are very nice but they too, like the Maple Leaf, suffer from being a one side design. Of course, that makes it much easier to decide which side to put down if you were using a one sided folder.

Somewhere around here I have one (non-proof) as a pocket piece.

See now I actually prefer a Royal Portrait on one side, then again I suppose that's because a portrait of a monarch has been on our coins for the last 500 odd years

Actually double the years, more like over a 1000.

We have only had Presidents on our obverses for about a fifth of that amount of time and I already hate them.

There has often been portraits on our coins since Offa's reign, 8th C so about 1300 years.

Clive.