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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 1202159, member: 19423&quot;]Definitely not buying... horrible design.</p><p><br /></p><p>1. No where on the medal is it marked as being .999 silver nor does it state the weight of the medal. It&#039;s struck using silver eagle planchets, so why not say that it&#039;s one ounce of .999 silver??</p><p><br /></p><p>2. The final design will have three sets of designer/engraver initials added somewhere. Usually they add them way too big and in not so attractive ways.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. The wavy lines on the reverse are supposed to represent cascading water??? What?? Looked like smoke to me... If it&#039;s water, why is there two colors of water?</p><p><br /></p><p>4. The eagle looks silly, almost like something from a 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon.</p><p><br /></p><p>5. Two different versions (one from Philadelphia with a P mintmark and one from West Point with a W mintmark). Is this really necessary for a medal?? I say NO to the US Mint, I&#039;m not buying them both... I&#039;m not even going to buy one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>6. The medal itself says nothing about what it&#039;s supposed to represent. &quot;Always Remember&quot; &quot;Honor&quot; and &quot;Hope.&quot; If you give this medal as a gift w/o the box the recipient will probably be asking what am I supposed to always remember? Or honor what and hope for what?? And also why have just 2001-2011 on the obverse... 10th anniversary of what?? Sure, the buyer of the medal knows that it&#039;s a 9/11 medal... but come on... I know they are trying to be very P.C. in their design, but it could have at least said September 11th on the medal somewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t believe a medal like this that is so poorly done actually makes it to production. Had the potential to be something really special too. Oh well.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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