How many of these things were recovered?

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• DNADave Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 6:49AM

  I'm not sure but I have two of the silver 2001 ASE's.
  
  They're a potent reminder to me of the events of that day. I was immediately activated and spent 1 year on active duty. My wife went into premature labor that evening and had to stay in bed until Dec. 14th, 2001.
  
  Those that don't like them don't have to. They're no more blood money than the I-beam cross or any other remembrance.

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• adamlaneus Posts: 6,969 ✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 6:54AM

  I have seen _way_ too many WTC coins that say "1 of whatever" on the label.
  
  I'm sorry, but they cannot all be number 1 of the series. It sounds like a serial number.
  
  Of course that is part of the scam. All they mean is that the coin you see is one coin. Although it looks like a serial number, it is not. They all say '1 of <number>'.
  
  I don't think that any numbers are trustworthy on this one. Including the asking price.
  
  
  

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• JJM Posts: 8,090 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 6:57AM

  Its says 1 of 1440, not #1 of 1440, is how I gather it

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• SanctionII Posts: 12,691 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 7:07AM

  What I find interesting about the World Trade Center attack of 9-11-2001 (as far as coins go) is that if:
  
  a. the attack took place months earlier; or
  
  b. if the lawsuit by the Government against coin dealer Stephen Fenton over the alleged "Farouk" 1933 Double Eagle had been set for trial not in 2-2001 but instead had been set for trial in mid 2001
  
  the 1933 Double Eagle would have never sold for over $7.5 million dollars because it would have been damaged, if not lost forever, when the towers fell.
  
  The 1933 Double Eagle was stored at the World Trade center from shortly after the time the Secret Service seized it in 1996 during the "sting" at the Waldorf Astoria until mid 2001, when, after the settlement between the government and Fenton, the coin was transferred to Fort Knox.

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• JJM Posts: 8,090 ✭✭✭✭✭

  October 7, 2008 7:15AM

  interesting, would it not have been secured in a vault and protected????

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• reds Posts: 262 ✭

  October 7, 2008 7:30AM

  There are some that state 1 of 1440
  
  1 of 1000
  
  1 of 500
  
  1 of etc. bunches of different sets, smoke and mirrors

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