Court Halts Sale of September 11 Coins

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/attacks_coin

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Wednesday obtained a court order to temporarily suspend the sale of commemorative Sept. 11 coins heavily advertised as being minted from silver recovered at ground zero.


Spitzer said the National Collector's Mint, based in Port Chester, N.Y., claims the coins engraved with "In God We Trust" are legally authorized silver dollars, when they aren't.

The TV and print ads include one fashioned after a news story that reads: "Today, history is being made. For the first time ever, a legally authorized government issue silver dollar has been struck to commemorate the World Trade Center and the new Freedom Tower being erected in its place ... Most importantly, each coin has been created using .999 pure silver recovered from ground zero!"


The dollar pieces are priced at $39 each, but sold at $19.95 with a limit of five per customer.

[calico1]

1. I am glad to hear that.

Talk about poor taste!

[suegeo]

12. Almost as bad as the RNC selling W. photos

These coins were almost as tacky as the RNC selling sets of photos of our fearful leader flying around on Sept. 11, 2001.

One ass on local hate radio said the photos showed Bush "at the top of his game."

I thought, "Bush, at the top of his game? Thousands of people just murdered, on Bush's watch, and he's at the TOP of his game? What happens when he's at the bottom of his game?"

[underpants]

15. Here is (sort of) one of the set of 3 that sold for $75 (or was it $175)

[onehandle]

2. They should arrest 9/11 profiteers. Starting with the Bush Cabal. nt

[saigon68]

3. You Mean---- The Bush Criminals

Cabal has too much of a civilized tone to it.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. Spitzer for Attorney General!!!!!

[Tempest]

13. Kerry couldn't pick a better man.

In the latest NRDC magazine, Spitzer is profiled because of his willingness to go after polluters for the citizens of NY.

[CityHall]

14. Excellent idea!

But keep in mind what happened to RFK. There are sill a lot of Nixon people in the Bush camp.
/tinfoil hat

[myrna minx]

22. I agree.

I could sleep at night knowing that he was AG. Gawd, I love Spitzer...

[factcheck]

5. I saw this

on TV and I thought OMG!!! What's next? Diamonds made from DNA found at ground zero?!?!? Commemorative steel plates made from recycled metal from the towers?!?!?

The only thing I think should be made from anything recycled from the towers is a cage to put bin Laden in!!! Build a prison completely from recycled materials from the towers to hold him and his ilk!

Sorry, but when I first heard the TV commercial, I thought: oh well, another ripoff scam. But then I heard them touting that the silver was recovered from ground zero and I was appalled!!!

[goodboy]

6. Good...I thought they were wrong to profit from 911 anyhow...nt

[Maeve]

7. And Lewis Black helped keep it from "slipping thru the cracks"

I gagged when I first heard of this story--and it was on "The Daily Show"!

[JVS]

8. Doh! I was going to get one to add to my FDNY ashtray in my tasteless...

souvenier collection. Maybe they'll go back on sale soon

[On the Road]

9. I've Seen Those Ads

they refer to the Northern Mariana Islands. Is that a US possession, or just a small country trying to make a few hundred thousand dollars?

[underpants]

11. CIA fact book-A Commonwelath in political union with the US

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/cq.html

Under US administration as part of the UN Trust Territory of the Pacific, the people of the Northern Mariana Islands decided in the 1970s not to seek independence but instead to forge closer links with the US. Negotiations for territorial status began in 1972. A covenant to establish a commonwealth in political union with the US was approved in 1975. A new government and constitution went into effect in 1978.

[napi21]

10. Elliott is doing a hell of a good job!

I've listened to quite a few of his news conferences, and he's not a nut case either! He's just very intent on doing a good job!

[clownskull]

16. GOOD!

I was so angry when I first saw that commercial. I mean fuming!

[LeinesRed]

17. Jon Stewart

addressed this crap magnificently a few weeks ago! It's scary how the Daily Show is always three steps ahead...

[Talisyn]

18. Talk about blood money...

I saw the TV commercial a week or so ago. Made me ill.

[Zynx]

19. 9/11 Criminals Should Be Jailed or Shot.

The silver claim is BS, btw. Given the heat of the tower fires, there is no way any silver in that pile would have survived pure enough to use given what else was in there.

[northzax]

20. what a shame

not that this was stopped by the courts, but that it wasn't stopped by popular disgust.

[Burma Jones]

21. Hear Hear...............................

And a tip of the hat to Lewis Black, my favorite angry man.

[Ilsa]

23. Do they have chocolate in them?

For $20, I expect some really good chocolate in my "silver" commemorative coins from Ground Zero.

[pinniped]

24. It always sounded fishy to me.

I get nicer .999 Ag $10 souvenir casino coins out of the slot machines in Reno.

Companies like this purposely mislead people into thinking they're affiliated with the U.S. Mint. I hate scumbags.

I hope they get their assets seized and be forced to pay 1,000,000,000 USD fine.

Those jerks took it off their sleazy website but you can still read the google cache.