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Toned WTC 9/11 Gold
jwitten
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I have been wanting a wtc gold for awhile, and when I saw this toned one, I knew it was for me. The coin is amazing in hand.. I had trouble capturing the colors as usual, so took lots of pics. The reverse shows normal color. I was not expecting to feel so oddly emotional when I got this coin. Feels weird to hold it knowing where it has been. That is a day I can never forget.
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I like toned gold, but I have never liked these PCGS WTC coins.
Others feel differently. I'll just leave it at that.
However, given a choice, I'd have to with THIS other piece of toned gold recovered from a fiery disaster site (and owned by a forum member).
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Hard to believe 9-11 was almost 15 years ago
Ditto my 15th forum anniversary.
(And my daughter's 15th birthday, for that matter.)
15 years is a long time in cyberspace.
I've got almost 17 years on eBay.
We were living in Ukraine then - crazy to think now with the war there now and all - but 15 years ago we were in the safest place in the world.
It's cool. I know the WTC Ground Zero Recovery provenance carries some emotional baggage, but they're historical.
However, given a choice, I'd have to with THIS other piece of toned gold recovered from a fiery disaster site (and owned by a forum member).
That is an amazing piece - I am wondering if it is the coin I heard about in a TV programme about a gold piece found in an archaeological dig a few years ago?
It's cool. I know the WTC Ground Zero Recovery provenance carries some emotional baggage, but they're historical.
However, given a choice, I'd have to with THIS other piece of toned gold recovered from a fiery disaster site (and owned by a forum member).
That is an amazing piece - I am wondering if it is the coin I heard about in a TV programme about a gold piece found in an archaeological dig a few years ago?
The one in Colosseo Collection traces it's lineage back to the Boscoreale Hoard of 1895
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We were living in Ukraine then - crazy to think now with the war there now and all - but 15 years ago we were in the safest place in the world.
i think a lot of people here in the US felt the same way, 15 years ago.
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I sold quite a few of the silver eagle WTC coins and only had 1 comment from someone who thought it was crass to be making money from the tragedy of 9/11 and fortunately no one was ever silly enough to try to compare the coins to Nazi material.
On the other hand, I sold 50 of the coins to a company that was using them for some kind of memorial and I shipped 6 of them to a lady in England who had lost a son in the towers and bought them for members of her family as a connection to her son. She sent me an email telling me how grateful she was to have found an actual connection to the event since there are no others.
Different people, different feelings on what they represent.
These coins were located in the Comex vaults located in the basement of the twin towers. On November 1, 2001 a caravan of Brinks trucks removed over 200 million dollars of gold and silver from the vault. A small portion of the coins were shipped directly to PCGS where they were authenticated and encapsulated. Some are graded merely Gem Uncirculated and some are graded MS69.
I sold quite a few of the silver eagle WTC coins and only had 1 comment from someone who thought it was crass to be making money from the tragedy of 9/11 and fortunately no one was ever silly enough to try to compare the coins to Nazi material.
On the other hand, I sold 50 of the coins to a company that was using them for some kind of memorial and I shipped 6 of them to a lady in England who had lost a son in the towers and bought them for members of her family as a connection to her son. She sent me an email telling me how grateful she was to have found an actual connection to the event since there are no others.
Different people, different feelings on what they represent.
I agree. I thought the nazi comment was out of left field as well. Buying a nazi coin would be more similar to buying the utility knife used by the hijacker, or islamic money they had in their pocket (if any of that was found, etc). These coins are not glorifying the event, and are not tied to the one causing the harm.
Hard to believe 9-11 was almost 15 years ago
yes, were all 15 years older now
I was aware that there was gold stored and later retrieved at the Twin Towers, but didn't known coins were made from the bullion.
I can remember the day Kennedy was shot and we all can remember the horror of 9-11. Not only what happened to those people directly involved but how the world was shocked and how we seemed paralyzed for days.
While seeing the coin invokes mind draining emotions, it does not shake our confidence that Liberty will survive so I view this coin as some kind of torphy
I want one!