Wtc Ground Zero Coins

Stephen, as a New Yorker I can see you being "closer" to the situation, and perhaps more qualified to make a moral judgment regarding the whole thing than I am. It just feels like blatant profiteering to me, taking advantage of a horrible tragedy just to fill your pockets. Not a penny of the money generated by these coins goes anywhere near the victims or the recovery effort.

As a counterpoint, though, I own a piece of coal recovered from the Titanic. Is that the same thing? Maybe so. Either way, this is only my own opinion, and I can easily understand and coexist with opinions about it different than my own.

The coin will serve as a reminder of that event. Something that is still so painful many people would rather forget. Yet in time this coin is a piece of History as coins recovered from hundred year old shipwrecks or old German coins with nazi symbols. It's history but gives off mixed emotions.

When my daughter was in Germany she bought me a tiny piece of concrete from the Berlin Wall.

I have mostly heard these coins called "blood coins" that PCGS and others tried to capitalize on a tragedy that happened because of all the strong feelings we all felt about 9-11

Thanks to everyone for the info. I'm especially grateful to Joeyuk for the David Hall quote. Watching those towers fall was and remains the most incomprehensible thing I ever hope to see. Although I have lived within a five-mile radius of that site for 30 years, I've never been to Ground Zero since that day, never seen any of the movies - made for TV or otherwise, never re-visited that day except to listen to other people's stories and tell my own, until now. As of today anyway, I'm glad to have this coin. So, enough of all this. Looking over what I've written, I realize it may seem a little melodramatic to some. I'm sorry if I left that impression.

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And as such if shown respect desearve a place in the collections of those who chose to own them.

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That makes all the difference in the world, Joeyuk. It may also be my less-than-favorable perception of PCGS which colors my thinking on the topic; they're wasting very little of their efforts these days improving their reputation as a responsible and customer-centric business, to say the least.

Is this coin considered a scam or is it worth it. It is supposedly made from the silver that was miraculously recovered from a bank vault found under tons of debris at Ground Zero. Somehow I doubt this, but I want to know everyone's opinion on it. Here is the link on it.
http://www.asseenontv.com/prod-page...orative.html
Notice the website so it's gotta be "genuine"

LOL, I was joking, I just thought it both interesting and wrong for those people who try to con people out of their money, ESPECIALLY with something that devastated the entire world.

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The Brilliant Uncirculated versions were less-than-Gem examples which weren't worth the cost of precise grading, just slabbed and thrown into the market.

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The Brilliant Uncirculated version was the first batch of coins from the towers that came out. They are not graded because they were not produced by a grading service. They were issued by Collectors Universe NOT PCGS even thouh they used PCGS shells. (If you look on the back you will see the Collectors Universe logo and not the PCGS Logo.) All of the Trade tower coins issued by PCGS are graded. At first all that PCGS slabbed were the 2001 coins, but then about six to eight months later the dam broke and they started slabbing anything and everything that came from the vaults, and they began creating special "limited edition" "sets" for dealers and numbered all of them 1 of XXX which allowed the dealers to hype each one of them as being some thing special because it was #1 of how ever many. And when they ran out they would just send the next batch in and create another "Limited edition" These were just a money grab.

And the vault did not survive the North Tower falling on it. The vault was in either tower 5 or tower 7.

That "popup" WTC piece. It probably does contain WTC silver. The silver is easy enough to acquire why would you not risk using it and possibly get found out.

That pop up of the towers is said to be layered with 15 milligrams of silver Well that is .015 grams. The silver from a SINGLE WTC death coin will provide enough silver to create 2000 of those coins. Thats $60,000 worth of sales from a single silver eagle. Why risk not using WTC silver?