That was certainly a dark day in History but then, so was Pearl Harbor. On one, we knew who the enemy was. On the other, we didn't. All the fingers were pointed in one direction with a total disregard for where the perpetrators actually originated from.
how can you be so sure that coin was from ground zero though? is there documentation to prove that it was?
Thanks Amanda This may help too http://www.wtc911coins.com/wtc-coin-population/ This is a good read http://www.wtc911coins.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/wtc-coins.pdf
The special label for the coins recovered from the WTC are just ridiculous. Those coins are no better or worse than any that were not at that location on that day so why pay a premium for the label? That extra money is not going to help the families of the victims, just lining the pockets of the greed mongers who are taking advantage of collectors who let their emotions get the better of them.
People collect what they "want" and the original coins did sell for premiums which were then passed to the families of the victims of this attack. These premiums set a specific value for the pieces and they've simply retained that value. Does the US Treasury get any residuals from the resale of popular varieties? Of course not and to assume that each individual financial transaction governing the "resale" of these pieces over and above their original sale since they were originally sold for their intended purpose should include a little something for the folks affected by this tragedy is fairly short sighted of the coin collecting hobby. Coin DO have values and some even retain those values which is what collecting is all about.
When 9-11 happened we were in a small city in Ukraine, we thought we were in the safest place in the world at that time. Now it is a war zone. Never thought I would see that happen, and have lots of bad dreams about it lately.
Around here you can now visit Osama Bin Laden's house in Abbottabad - well, a sort of replica. It is part of a 11 Sep 2001 exhibition at the Espionage Museum in Oberhausen, NW. Christian
For the original WTC coins (the ones slabbed by Collectors Universe, not the ones done later by PCGS) par of the money from the original sales DID go to the families of the victims.
On 9-11 I was at the twin towers (the twin towers in Beijing). Several days later, I took the first plane from Beijing back to the USA. There were only five of us in our cabin. The plane was virtually empty of passengers.
It sure was a different world, before and after 9-11. Later on returning to the USA via Poland noticed a huge uptick in security. There was security at Kyiv Borispol, but if anything was going to happen there they wouldn't have noticed since they were busy separating a huge brawl betwixt a group of Orthodox Jews waiting for a flight back to Tel Aviv.
100 quarters were slabbed with the US flag on them and a notice that they were for the WTC Firemans Rescue fund. That was done at the request of the PCGS forum membership and the purchase/auction etc by the forum members raised over $40,000 for the families of the Firefighters killed that day. About a year or so later PCGS used the same flag label and quarters as a premium gift to people becoming PCGS members. Those labels did not have the Rescue fund notice on them. Personally I still think it "cheapened" the original label and that flag label should not have been used again. The Firemans fund quarters are highly personal keepsakes to the original purchasers and very seldom come on the market.
I have a set of these too just never photograph them, these have a different version of the flag then the WTC coins
