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As far as I know, silver coins were planned for early adopters. It's ok buy why not giving the coins an additional marketing function and sell it outside the NEM-circle to achieve more publicity for NEM.
(my idea: 1ounce .999 silver, 24k goldplated, for stakeholders, limited and unplated silver version for public sales???)
other marketing silver coin ideas welcome
Perhaps make them redeemable to all the original stakeholders first, and once the deadline finishes, make the unclaimed ones available to others new to XEM?
Would need to give a decent redemption period to avoid controversy.
I agree with nzminer and howl53. A decent redemption process and period targeting a wider audience would seem to be a good way to go.
But that's my opinion. I don't really care that much about the original stakeholders being at the top of the priority list for the silver coins.