WTC gold coin set
TheDon
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I have an opportunity to purchase a set of 4 WTC gold recovery coins. I was hoping to get some feedback from a few experienced collectors before I commit myself to the sale. The set includes an eagle, a nugget, a leaf, and a krugerrand. They're all PCGS BU, save for the eagle, which is MS69. The price I've been given is in the thousands...seems high. I've seen PCGS silver from the trade center at $100. I do not intend to buy these coins to make a profit, I'm Navy and have a deep respect for the cause. Much thanks to anyone who can give me some info on this set.
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I don't think I would pay a huge premium for the WTC recovery pedigree, but that's just me. Maybe a small premium over the normal price for such coins.
WTC Thread
My friend has a contemporary "Remember the Maine" plaque in his kitchen. Attached to it are two Barber dimes I assume were supposedly recovered from the wreck of the battleship Maine. The sinking of the Maine was a similar event which shocked the nation and sent it to war. But let's look at it now, 106 years later. Isn't it kind of neat that my friend has some Barber dimes from the wreck? (Assuming the coins really are from the wreck- I see no other reason for their being affixed to the plaque, which is really an ornamental metal trivet of some sort.) I'll bet the person who sold that plaque/trivet thingie (and soldered the dimes on) wasn't shouted at for being tasteless at the time.
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a small premium would be ok because of the holder,maple leafs and krugs sell for slightly over melt i think.
I suppose since you're not buying them to profit, but for sentimental reasons, the exorbitant markup isn't as big of an issue. But I still wouldn't recommend them.
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Everyone who is waivering in their support of the War on Terror should be reminded of that day by these images.
<< <i>They're all PCGS BU, save for the eagle, which is MS69. >>
Only the Eagle is from PCGS. The other three are from Collectors Universe. Collectors Universe owns PCGS and they slabbed the WTC coins under their name in PCGS slab shells.
When thinking about the WTC pedigree, I ask myself, if there were such a thing, "would I buy an Oklahoma City Murrah Federal Building coin?" After all, those folks too were victims of a terrorist attack, right?
My answer is "no" to a purchase in each case.
"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning."
- Calvin
"Why waste time learning, when ignorance is instantaneous?"
- Hobbes
But we survived. New York survived. America survived. It isn't so much a "phoenix from the ashes" thing as it is something about not being able to destroy us in the first place. I bought a Collector's Universe WTC SAE right after they hit the 2ndary market. And I love it. It was there, at ground zero, on 9-11. It says "United States of America" on it. Lady Liberty walks in the sun, draped in a flag. She's as beautiful today as she was the day she was made. And they couldn't destroy her.
I've been a coin collector for longer than anything in my life (since I was 4 or 5, I'm 35 now). It's more of a part of me than anything else. So this was a real connection to the tragedy. But more importanty, it represents the survival. Like the slab says:
WTC Ground Zero recovery.
--Severian the Lame
<< <i>Gotta disagree with the majority. What happened on 9-11 effected all of us. Like most of us, I was pretty depressed for several months following the attack.
But we survived. New York survived. America survived. It isn't so much a "phoenix from the ashes" thing as it is something about not being able to destroy us in the first place. I bought a Collector's Universe WTC SAE right after they hit the 2ndary market. And I love it. It was there, at ground zero, on 9-11. It says "United States of America" on it. Lady Liberty walks in the sun, draped in a flag. She's as beautiful today as she was the day she was made. And they couldn't destroy her.
I've been a coin collector for longer than anything in my life (since I was 4 or 5, I'm 35 now). It's more of a part of me than anything else. So this was a real connection to the tragedy. But more importanty, it represents the survival. Like the slab says:
WTC Ground Zero recovery.
They are not the majority at all. It is just that most of us who do acquire the WTC recovery coins are more low keyed.
<< <i>Remember the Maine. >>
The trouble is the sinking of the Maine evidence points to an accident. We all know who was responsible for 9/11, and the barbarians who planned it are proud of it.
<< <i>The trouble is the sinking of the Maine evidence points to an accident. >>
It didn't in 1898!
<< <i>It didn't in 1898! >>
Well in 1898 the country was engaged in what could politely be called "imperialism." Some folks had had their eyes on making a Cuba a territory or state since before the Civil War, and the idea of starting up an Asian empire looking interesting too. Spain was weak and looking ready for the taking so what could be wrong with “a splendid little war?”
And besides look at it this way, we got President Teddy Roosevelt out of the deal. If he had not become a war hero for the charge he led up San Juan Hill, he probably would not have been elected Governor of New York. And if he had not been elected Governor of New York, the Republican politicians would not have been so anxious to get that “pesky honest reformer” out of New York politics and into the “dead end” Vice Presidential position.
All at once Teddy became “the mad man who was a heart beat away from the presidency.” And then through a stroke of fate Roosevelt became in the words of William McKinley’s campaign manager, Mark Hanna, “the damn cowboy” who was now the President of the United States.
History can take some interesting turns.