Terror Schlock: Making a Mint on 9/11

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from Tyee, via AlterNet:



Terror Schlock: Making a Mint on 9/11

By Steve Burgess, The Tyee. Posted September 15, 2007.


National Collector's Mint offers a World Trade Center anniversary commemorative coin using silver recovered from the vaults at Ground Zero itself -- can it go much lower than that?


Breathtaking. That's the only word for the World Trade Center anniversary commemorative coin from National Collector's Mint. Breathtaking is the word they use, and who could argue? Not me, friend.

Each coin features an outline of the World Trade Center towers in silver. Did I say silver? It's no ordinary plunder. This is silver recovered from vaults at Ground Zero itself! (I apologize for the exclamation marks -- ordinarily I don't find them necessary. But this is a special case!)

Gather your breath for the next part -- you'll need to hoard some. Because the World Trade Center anniversary commemorative coin from National Collector's Mint is more than just a coin. It's a sculpture.

How can this be, you ask? Is it something from the mind of Hollywood, where trucks transform into robots and rap singers somehow become thespians? No, my credulous friends. Hear me out. You will recall that every coin features the silver Trade Center towers -- made with silver from vaults at Ground Zero! -- on a coin plated with gold from somewhere else, covering an unidentified metal that could be lead from recycled Chinese toys. They don't say. But before your eyes the towers rise again (you have to do this part) and stand proudly as a glittering sculptural tribute to the fallen landmark. To quote from the National Collector's Mint: "The effect is dazzling -- it is literally transformed into a standing sculpture of the Twin Towers!" (Exclamation marks theirs.) .....(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/story/62514/

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