Post your 9-11 Recovery Coins
Weiss
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--Severian the Lame
--Severian the Lame
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Weiss
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I would but I sold all 80 of mine years ago.
Where there is a buck to be made....
Years back on ebay I saw a listing for a '99-w $10 unfinished PR dies in a pcgs 9-11 recovery holder. He was asking $50k, dont' know if it sold.
I don't have a picture but I have the cheapo one, the south American silver coin.
Here's mine. One exactly like it recently sold for over $1600 in open bidding.
I do not have any ...... I did not like the commercialization of such a disaster. Certain things - to me - should not be market hyped. 9-11 is such an incident. RickO
Petty profiteering from the needless deaths of thousands. If this perversity is accepted then why not bone fragments and bits of clothing for sale -- kind of like "Saint's Relics?"
I fully understand the position of those who are opposed, but what is the alternative? Sell this bullion without its historic connection being recorded? It was a witness to the terrible events of that day. The short term "profiteering" has passed and now we are left with certified relics of important history.
Same goes for the steel that was recovered. What was not preserved for memorials was unceremoniously shipped off to China to be turned into soup cans and car parts. Not very dignified. It is a bit creepy to know that my next paper clip could be from part of the WTC.
the same could be said about civil war relics...
Don't own any, but they are nice coins especially with the history attached
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....and also about any shipwreck treasure. Good point.
It always amazes me how some sunken ships are considered a gravesite that can not be disturbed, but when it is a ship with millions of dollars in gold somehow the prohibition on disturbing it evaporates.
I do not pretend to have all the answers on these questions, but there are many inconsistencies in how things are viewed depending on the circumstances.
Not only are treasures being sold from shipwrecks, but relics from the Titanic are being sold.
I stand by my opinion - even if i am the only one standing. It is morally reprehensible.
I totally understand your opinion. It is very valid. When I first heard of the Ground Zero Recovery coins, I felt like you do. After hearing alternative opinions and thinking about it, I see both sides. I'm still in the middle.
I have an PCGS MS 69 2001 ASE WTC recovery coin, one of I think 980 with a cert number, purchased on the Tenth Anniversary.
It is saved along with a newspaper, a dvd of the attacks and such.
I keep it the same way I do my Namesake Uncles WWII medals, he was a B-24 Liberator waist gunner, my Dad's Korean War Medals, my Grandfathers WWI keepsakes.
I show these to my Grandkids on Independence Day.
And explain the meaning of EACH piece.
Upon my demise they go to them, I PRAY they continue the tradition and our enemies vanquished, and that they May See Peace In THEIR Lifetime.
I didn't ask for comments, I asked for images.
But since the door has been kicked open:
I, too, watched the towers fall. I was one of the first in line at the blood bank, to make my first ever donation, when we thought there would be tens of thousands of casualties. FWIW: I just made my 96th donation--12 full gallons of blood.
And I'm a coin collector. I've been one since I was 4. So it's the very first thing I ever identified myself as and have continued to identify myself as nearly a half century later. As a coin collector, these pieces have a deep and special meaning to me.
So you see these pieces as how evil tried to destroy us. I see them as how evil failed to destroy us.
I see these pieces as Francis Scott Key would have seen them.
Read it carefully and note how it relates to Weinman's design:
O say can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
--Severian the Lame
@Weiss, So you see these pieces as how evil tried to destroy us. I see them as how evil failed to destroy us.
That gave me goose pumps.
I hope those that think it is bad to buy/sell these coins never watch any documentary on 9/11. Cause you know, there are advertisers. And producers. And a bunch of people that are making $ off those documentaries.
12 gallons! Wow...
Interesting discussion, just wish I had mine handy to contribute a photo.
I also have a huge steel medallion made from WTC steel. Controversial then and controversial now. It is a weird memento but it is a sacred one at the same time. (If it makes anyone feel better the company that made them went bankrupt a couple years later).
As for the recovered sliver and gold coins (and there was also a small quantity of minor bronze foreign coins in the vault), i still think they needed to be preserved somehow, but maybe they could have been melted down and made into a sculpture for display at the Ground Zero museum, which incidentally I visited last new year's eve. It was powerful experience and I was glad to see so many young people there, many of whom were very emotional.
I had some that I sold not long after 2001, while it was still fresh in the news and memory. I had one or two people complain that making money off of these coins was not right, but mostly comments were very positive, especially from those who had a direct connection to the World Trade Center.
One lady from England I still remember. She wanted a half dozen of the WTC coins for herself and members of her family. She had a son who was visiting from England and was in the WTC on 9/11 and was killed in the tragedy. She was extremely grateful to get what she felt was the only tangible connection between herself, the WTC and her son. I had similar comments from other people who had actual connections to the events of 9/11.
I also found this in the Letters To The Editor from the Numismatist magazine dated March 2016, Page 13:
**Ground Zero Recovery Coins
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I would like to respond to Grant Shobar's commentary, "Remembering 9/11" (January, p. 31), in which he talks about the sale of coins salvaged from the World Trade Center (WTC) in Lower Manhattan. I marketed these historic Ground Zero Recovery coins and donated nearly $40,000 to the ANA from the proceeds. I also contributed more than $300,000 to the WTC memorial.
I was approached by a representative of an important financial institution that owned the recovered coins about marketing the pieces to raise money for their fallen co-workers. It determined the price and donation level for the deal, as well where the funds went. I was able to convince the company that about 10 percent should go to the ANA.
I was honored to be chosen to market the coins. While there was adverse publicity from some sectors, overall the support was overwhelming, and the United States coins sold out quickly and carry substantial premiums today. The financial institution, the New York State attorney general, representatives of Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS) and the World Trade Center memorial, and I worked well together on this important project.
I encourage ANA members to visit the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, which includes the largest manmade waterfalls in the United States. Set within the footprints of the original twin towers are state-of-the-art multimedia exhibits that explore the historic implications of that day's tragic events
Michael Fuljenz, LM 6173
War is one thing; an attack on innocent civilians, that is not in a time of war, is another.
No interest in anything 9/11 related. Zero. Any reminder of that day really hurts. I can't conceive that that kind of evil lives in this world. That said, I have no issues with other folks owning artifacts. To each his own. Just not for me.
Dave