Consumers, Politicians Rail At So-Called 9/11 Commemorative Coin That May Be Worthless

[The Straight Story]

Consumers, Politicians Rail At So-Called 9/11 Commemorative Coin That May Be Worthless


NEW YORK - A coin commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks is drawing the ire of consumers and politicians who have learned that the coin may be just a worthless trinket that has no affiliation with the US government and does not benefit the 9/11 Memorial, FOXNews.com reported Thursday.

Katie Smith and John Shughart of Carlisle, Pa., thought they were buying a priceless piece of history, but the coin they bought may not have even a cent of value.

"I think it's a complete rip-off," Smith said. "It's a scam."

The couple called a 1-800 number and ordered a 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Commemorative Coin after seeing a commercial on TV. The commercial claims the coin has "sculptures of the USS New York and the World Trade Center towers, inset with jeweler precision on its obverse, each entirely clad in 0.999 pure silver actually recovered from beneath the ashes of Ground Zero."

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The Better Business Bureau gives The National Collector's Mint an "F" rating for various complaints about the company's selling and billing practices and its 9/11 Tenth Anniversary Coin.

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/consumers-politicians-rail-at-so-called-911-commemorative-coin-that-may-be-worthless-020411

[rfranklin]

1. Scratch that silver plate and you will find a Republican...

Avram Freedberg CEO of National Collector's Mint $1000 to Cantor for Congress 2010

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Nice find!!!!

[Octafish]

6. What dixiegrrrrl said.

Amazing Fraudsters, republicons.

[MineralMan]

2. Oh, for pete's sake! These commemorative coin scams

have been going on for years. Why anyone falls for them I do not know. But...they're not illegal and, as long as the advertising is accurate, they're a perfectly legal scam. Anyone stupid enough to buy this garbage has, no doubt, bought many other worthless items "as seen on TV."

I'm not sure why this is a news story, really.

[arbusto_baboso]

4. Anyone classless enough to buy one of those crass mementoes of death...

deserves to be ripped-off.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Quelle Surprise

I laughed when I saw that scam add. "Gold and Silver plated". A real keepsake that is sure to gain value (along with the 5 million others out there...LOL). A real sucker come on for those gullible enough to believe the bullshit and blinded by 9/11 phobia. Just a little math...gold is around $1200 an ounce (give or take a hundred) and the ooin sold for $19.95? Sadly there were suckers out there who bought it. I hope they didn't try to pawn it at Goldline. :rofl:

[FLPanhandle]

7. There's a sucker born every minute

and Katie Smith and John Shughart of Carlisle, Pa. are just a couple of them.