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Revisited: Sept. 11 commemorative coins bogus

October 13, 2004 by in News,Politics with 3 Comments

Spitzer said the sale of the silver dollars â€â€? emblazoned with the World Trade Center towers on one side and the planned Freedom Tower on the other â€â€? 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.”

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  • http://www.uneasysilence.com/archive/2006/08/7245/ UNEASYsilence » They’re back: The WTC coins

    [...] Over a year ago we reported (original forum post is gone) that the National Collector’s Mint marketed a Freedom Tower September 11th coin. That coin promptly recieved the smackdown from NY attorney general Elliot Spitzer, on a technacality to stop the coin from being sold. Now it seems the National Collector’s Mint wants to market the coin again, but now newly redesigned from the lessions they learned. Yes, they still claim that it is made from the silver burried at ground zero, and yes it is still horrabally tasteless. [...]

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