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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 382474, member: 4626&quot;]I remember similar arguments made in a thread discussing the ethics of collecting or not collecting coins minted by Nazi Germany.&nbsp; My belief was (and still is) that the regime has already come and gone, and collecting such things can not possibly support the toppled regime nor should automatically be considered an endorsement of it.&nbsp; It&#039;s just history, for better or worse, and pretending history we don&#039;t like didn&#039;t happen doesn&#039;t change anything.</p><p><br /></p><p>Honestly I think the same thing here... while I can understand your point about disdaining those who profit from tragedy, these coins are a part of history now.&nbsp; You can look at it as profiting from a tragedy, or honoring those who died in it, or just a coin that happened to be in a historic location.&nbsp; People died in the sinking of the USS Central America in 1857... do you have a problem with people buying coins from that shipwreck?&nbsp; Not many objections were raised over that as I can recall.&nbsp; Perhaps the more time passes since 2001 these coins will be thought of in a similar way.&nbsp; Just something to think about...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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