Thank you very much for the link. So as an investment vehicle, silver bullion is not legal until 2009--no silver stackers. Thus, indirectly, the ownership of silver bullion is not encouraged. Wow, I need to think about this a bit... It is big, BIG!
As a side note, now I see why Klause separated out Panda and Lunar series in a different catagories, under the heading of "Silver Bullion" and "Gold Bullion". They were for foreign consumption as bullion, not intented as domestic collectible, until recently.
Yet another side note, other than Panda/Lunar/god of prosperity/Auspicious matters, there are very few silver coins of 0.999 purity in the low denomination level. So 0.999 is not for domestic consumption until recently. Hmmm...