This is the most disgusting display of commercialism that I have seen since that Mexican food company accidentally bought a tasteless toy plane crashing into the WTC. The toy was meant to be put in bags of candy, and the distributor claims it was a mistake and that when they buy toys for the candy, they don't know what toys they get beforehand since everything is bought en masse).


However, the disgusting web of lies that The National Collector's Mint is weaving around this coin is reprehensible. They are currently airing commercials on television peddling this product.


This is a direct quote from their website:


Today history is being made!  For the first time ever, a legally authorized government issue silver dollar has been struck to commemorate the World Trade Center and the new Freedom Tower being erected in its place.  It's the U.S. territorial minting of the 2004 "Freedom Tower" Silver Dollar from CNMI.  Most importantly, each coin has been clad in .999 Pure Silver recovered from Ground Zero!


No, this is not a misprint. The silver used in each gleaming dollar coin is from Ground Zero! You see, when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, a bank vault full of .999 Pure Silver bars was buried under hundreds of tons of debris. After months of salvage work, many of the bars were found. Now, the same silver that was reclaimed from the destruction has been used to create the magnificent 2004 “Freedom Tower” Silver Dollar.


Most viewers first heard about this coin via The Daily Show thought it was a great joke. But scarily enough, it's not actually a joke. Not only is the NCM grotesquely profiting from the horror of September 11th, they are now profiting from the Ground Zero workers, who are suing the lease holders of the property because no one informed them that they were going to be exposed to toxic elements. Those workers, who worked feverishly to clean up the site, are becoming the second wave of casualties of September 11th as illness sweeps over their numbers.


This coin is in no way sanctioned by the National Mint, nor is it true U.S. currency. It's just someone's grand scheme to make a tacky dollar.

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