Zimbabwe Bond Coins

To use the Australian slang expression, they are "Claytons coins" - in other words, they're the coins that you're issuing when you're not issuing coins. (for those curious as to the derivation of the slang expression, see Wikipedia)

Since they are issued by an authorized government agency for the purpose of being used as money, personally I would have to answer "yes, they are coins, rather than tokens". Though I suspect that ultimately the long-term answer to the question depends on how they are accepted by the Zimbabwean public. French Chamber of Commerce "good for" tokens issued after WWI are today accepted as "French coins", because the French people of the day happily accepted them as such.

By all accounts, the Zimbabwean people are currently highly suspicious of these "coins". Here's last month's thread on the topic, with a link to a South African news source.

Given Zimbabwe's history of strictly enforcing their own anti-coin-export laws and the amount of trouble that they've gone to to make and issue these "coins", I suspect that very, very few of them will ever make it into the hands of foreign collectors. Unless the experiment proves a dismal failure and the Zimbabwe government dumps them all onto the world market in an effort to recoup their lost cash.

@ nalaberong:
Your wish suggests to me that the Zimbabwean Government may be tempted to sell these coins at a large premium to the collector market.
It could help to give an image that the economy of that Country may at last be showing some signs of recovery, irrespective of if that image is true or not.

I have been trying to find some of these coins for my collection also. So far no luck.