Buying the coin or the label?

Hmm perhaps we're talking about slightly different things. My understanding is (and I could be wrong) the ASE with the WTC label were located in a vault at the base of the WTC wreckage. I believe they were already minted and the special label only designates that the coins were recovered from ground zero.

 

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Or not. Back in the day many collectors viewed those World Trade Center surviver slabs as "blood money."

 

The logic just doesn’t add up. Being recovered from a building is a variety but being minted at a different mint isn’t? They either both are or they both aren’t from a discussion standpoint.

Even your response proves that as what different source metal as a ground zero recovery coin?

Being minted at a different mint does actually make the coin different than one minted elsewhere, the recovery coins are just historical not varieties.

And no I don’t wanna hear anything from the peanut gallery like I am somehow dismissing the significance of that horrendous attack on the USA

 

Wonder if we'll ever know how many ASE's have been minted at the Philadelphia mint for 2020. If we can find that out, it may lend value to these otherwise inflated price coins. IMHO mintage figures do mean something. Plus this is supposed to be the last year ASE's are minted with the present reverse.

 

How they were marketed 19 years ago by sociopathic profiteers does not change the historical significance of these coins.

 

I agree

At the end of the day is it fundamentally different then Shipwreck coins? People died on those ships

Heck you could say Blood Money on these emergency issues as well. They are being made because of a Pandemic that has killed 100,000 people

 

you think that is silly, the other day saw an ad for a coin, where they said Denver mint, and it was a San Francisco mint, error on pcgs label and the guy wanted 400.00 for a 35.00 coin

 

I stumbled across this on eBay today. They are even offering a 33% discount!

 

A shipwreck is a bit different. Those are usually the result of an act of God, unless it's human error, such as two ships colliding. 9/11 was an act terrorism.

I felt the same way about the World War I commemorative coin. I didn't buy one because I saw nothing to celebrate about the that war. It settled nothing and killed millions of people. In fact the peace that came out of it sowed the seeds for World War II.