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For one easy payment of $29.95, you too can Never Forget

Jill

I wish this was a joke.

Yes, this 9/11 memorial coin contains “pure silver actually recovered beneath the ashes of Ground Zero.” It may be blatant war profiteering, but never fear — a whole $5 will be donated to a 9/11 fund.

Get yours now.

via Lauren.

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13 thoughts on For one easy payment of $29.95, you too can Never Forget

  1. Uh, just how much silver was under there? How was it extracted? What was it originally part of? The change in the victims’ pockets, or maybe their teeth? Who’s in charge of proving its origin? All right, I didn’t have the nerve to pry farther into that ad, but it left me cold.
    A coin with a stand-up teeny sculpture is a cute idea, but still it. seems to me there might be better ways of showing respect for the towers and the people lost than buying something that sounds so dubious, and costs so much anyway.

  2. I was going to ask the same questions as Angiportus. This is, like, the property of the victims melted down for a trinket? Like, their jewelry and stuff?

  5. Uh, just how much silver was under there? How was it extracted? What was it originally part of? The change in the victims’ pockets, or maybe their teeth? Who’s in charge of proving its origin? All right, I didn’t have the nerve to pry farther into that ad, but it left me cold.

    What I’ve heard is that there was a stash of both gold and silver in the vaults belonging either to the Stock Exchange, the government (it was owned by the Port Authority, after all), or one of the investment banks. I just don’t remember offhand.

    That’s every bit as tacky as the lucite light-up towers and commemorative socks for sale downtown.

  6. Wait, there are socks now?

    I was only in New York once in 1999, but someone has to tell me more about these socks…

  8. I saw commercials for something similar not too long after 9/11 — maybe a year? Only it was gold, from “the vaults” in the towers. Tacky, to say the least.

  10. So sad there’s no contact number or e-mail on the site. I’d like to give them a “Very Special” commentary on their item…

  11. This is the same company that put out the Freedom Tower coins in 2004 and were stopped by court order after New York attorney general Spitzer went after their claim that the coins were made by silver recovered in the rubble. I can’t believe they have the gall to try the same thing again two years later.

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