Court Halts Sale of September 11 Coins

[Fenris]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=3&u=/ap/attacks_coin

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer obtained a court order Wednesday to temporarily suspend the sale of commemorative Sept. 11 coins 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 other — is a fraud. He's investigating whether the silver actually 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., falsely claims that the coins engraved with "In God We Trust" are legally authorized silver dollars.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. I (heart) Eliot Spitzer. Hope he's the next AG!

[baldguy]

2. Well, now they're really collectors' items

"The coin that was BANNED by the Government"

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. my freeper brother in law was going to buy

a whole mess of those... LOL. When the story broke yesterday I HAD to call and tell him (and see if he'd put his order in yet). His response, "The government wants the silver for themselves..."

This is a guy who wears his NRA 2nd Ammendment Task Force baseball cap to weddings.