Spitzer halts sale of Sept. 11 coins-I'm so glad!!!!

[AlCzervik]

By MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press Writer
Last Updated 8:59 am PDT Wednesday, October 13, 2004
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - 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 sale of the silver dollars emblazoned with the World Trade Center towers on one side and the planned Freedom Tower on the flip side is a fraud and he's investigating the claim the silver came from the ruins of the twin towers.

"It is a shameless attempt to profit from a national tragedy," Spitzer said. "This product has been promoted with claims that are false, misleading or unsubstantiated."

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.

He said the coin advertised as nearly pure silver is only silver plated, produced by a Wyoming company called SoftSky Inc.

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The TV a

[Beetwasher]

1. Who Wants To Bet That These Scumbags Are Republicans?

Any takers?

[bluedeminredstate]

3. Oh yeah

They're "enterpenuuurs" as the Chimp would say.

[AlCzervik]

4. i'm sure, what democrat would do this?

i hated those commercials so much, i wanted to scream whenever i saw one. Fing shameless, just like the gop convention.

[Dob Bole]

2. Wyoming? Please tell me Cheney owns it...

*devilish grin*

[Vickers]

12. Hahahaha, that's the first thought that crossed my mind!

"Omigawd, wouldn't it be RICH if Tricky Dick Cheney was somehow involved!!!"

:toast:

[yellowcanine]

5. Some of those private mints are big ripoffs of unsophisitcated investors.

As are some of the companies that trade in "limited edition" collectibles that people buy not because they like them but because they think they are good investments. Many times they aren't.

[Dufaeth]

6. Barry Goldwater Jr. (R)

Somehow he is involved in all this:
http://www.numismedia.com/law/index.shtml
http://www.nationalcollectorsmint.com/uploaded/goldwater.htm

[tridim]

7. Ironically, if they are banned

The ones that have already been shipped will become actual collector's items.

[displacedtexan]

8. Will this make those horrible commercials go away?

GAWD, I hope so!

I swear I can sense pitiful old people opening their wallets every time that commercial airs.

[AlCzervik]

10. I think so, i'm surprised they dont have the coin

sitting atop a mountain of skulls. Next up....collector plates!

[Steely_Dan]

9. I Actually Called...

I actually called this company to complain...

I suggested that they were profiting from a horrible tragedy and that they have no shame.

-Paige

[dennis4868]

11. "It is a shameless attempt to profit from a national tragedy," Spitzer sai

profting from a national tragedy? hmmmm...isn't Bush doing the same damn thing?