How Is This Eagle Possible?

The COMEX storage vaults were located under the WTC complex, some of the PMs were owned by foreign governments while others were owned by individuals and investment firms. Since the PMs were stored in vaults, they survived unscathed and were recovered several months after 9/11. Some of the PMs in the form of silver and gold Eagles were sold off and slabbed first by Collectors Universe(parent company of PCGS) and another batch was slabbed by PCGS.

Great points! And you know what? I really don't thing pcgs would jeopardize their reputation unless they were 100% certain especially with something so sensitive as this

I have a hard time with this as well SuperDave While I have no answer for what should be done with "memorabilia" from 9/11, it doesn't feel right making money off of it. And yes, this will probably be worth thousands years from now, but my heart wouldn't let me buy it. Wouldn't feel right.

Then don't believe it. In the meantime, I have to contradict you publicly so all those readers who don't know aren't misinformed.

SuperDave, I definitely appreciate the information and you helped answer my original question. Thank you:)

Well said. That's bad mojo right there. I wouldn't accept it if it was free. I'd rather scrap the metal & donate the proceeds to the Wounded Warriors project, Operation Homefront, D.A.V. etc.

You may as well be buying a star of David from a holocaust coat. It doesn't sit well with me.

They do it every time they slab a First Strike coin. Those coins are pulled and shipped at random from a warehouse. No one knows when they were struck and PCGS knows that.

People have always sold pieces of history, and people have bought it. Even if it's bad history, there is still a market for it. Look at the Binion Collection, that was no happy ending for Ted anyway, but all the coins from that sold, and as you say, how do we know they were actually from his collection. Companies put there reputation at stake with stuff like this, and most if not all would do there due diligence in research to verify they are selling what they say they are before offering the first one up for sale. People say they would never own one of those coins, but do you have a silver War Nickel, any depression era coins? There are so many other coins out there that people have sold and bought that in my mind would be considered worse, if you factor in the amount of lives lost and people changed forever. Coins with history, items with history, seem to always have a higher resale value, and for most collectors, there pieces are always better if there is a story behind it. Just my 2 cents worth.