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The strangest WTC coin story

The story of the silver 10 Peso from Uruguay, why did somebody have 5,000 of these coins in the vault under the World Trade Center, its from 1961 and its silver, but the coins are Uncirculated so maybe somebody though it was a good investment in silver coins at the time and bough a whole lot of them I am not sure. But the story is that these coins where some of the first coins to be graded by Collectors Universe and that there where 5,000 coins of this 10 Peso silver coin from 1961.

The coin is frequent on ebay and always at a great price for a WTC coin

1961 WTC 10 Pesos GU    US $99.00

1961 SILVER 10 PESOS RECOVERED WTC WORLD TRADE CENTER RECOVERY    US $199.00

1961 MS68 10 PESOS URUGUAY SILVER WTC GROUND ZERO VERY RARE ★$BONUS★    US $199.99

1961 MS69 10 PESOS URUGUAY SILVER WTC GROUND ZERO VERY RARE ★$BONUS★    US $199.99

1961 10 PESOS URUGUAY SILVER WTC GROUND ZERO ★$BONUS★    US $109.99

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WTC 2001 1 of 269 On Ebay No Reserve

So right now I see the WTC 2001 1 of 269 the full set is now available all 5 coins. 1 oz. 1/2 oz. 1/4 oz. and the 1/10 oz. Also the 1oz silver coins in 1 of 269 is available. They are on Ebay with no reserve so right now somebody can get a great deal on all 5 coins. Check it out I will have the coins below direct from Ebay.

2001 American Silver Eagle Gem Uncirculated WTC Ground Zero Recovery    US $125.49

2001 $10 Platinum Eagle PCGS MS69 WTC World Trade Center Recovery wtc 911    US $1,795.00

2001 $25 Platinum Eagle PCGS MS69 WTC World Trade Center Recovery wtc 911    US $7,495.00

2001 $5 Gold Eagle WTC PCGS MS69 Ground Zero Recovery With Pouch    US $500.00

2001 US Silver Eagle WTC World Trade Center Recovered Coin 1 oz NTC z604    US $125.00

American Silver Eagle 2001 WTC World Trade Center Recovered Coin 1 oz NTC z605    US $125.00

2001 $10 1 4 oz Gold Eagle 1of 531 9 11 WTC Ground Zero Recovery PCGS Gem Unc    US $462.00

2001 $25 1 2 oz Gold Eagle 1of 531 9 11 WTC Ground Zero Recovery PCGS Gem Unc    US $705.00

2001 $5 Gold Eagle PCGS MS69 WTC Ground Zero Recovery 9 11 01     US $371.02

2001 $1 Silver Eagle PCGS MS69 WTC Ground Zero Recovery 9 11 01    US $202.51

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PCGS Answers Questions About WTC Coins

So I talked this week to PCGS and to Ken from Blue Moon coins. I just had a few questions for Ken about the 1989 $1 silver wtc coins but PCGS I had  a lot of questions for them. I got on the phone with a very very nice rep. his name was peter I think his extension is #293 when you call in. He was a go getter and he of course did not know the answers to all my questions, but he did research on it and call me back. I love PCGS they are a very professional company to deal with. So here are the answers peter gave me on my questions.

1. Does PCGS have population numbers on some WTC coins?

Answer: Yes, coins with a bar code on the front is in their system and population numbers on those coins are available. In the start the coins where grade in this way, but soon PCGS reallized that some years did not have very many coins in them and to not make the coins to unique or value driven because of their low population numbers PCGS decided to not keep track of the rest of the WTC coins.

Now here are 2 coins that has a serial number on the front.

Now the 1989 silver dollar has serial number 69826.69 (.69 being the grade) so serial number 69826 and when looking the coin up at PCGS it comes back with 11 coins in MS69 and variety WTC. The other coin has serial number 9958.70 (.70 being the grade) again this coin comes up with 3 coins in the MS70 grade. So if anybody is sitting with coins that has a bar code in the front, send me pictures and I will post the population numbers.

2. Now does this mean that their could be other 1989 MS69 coins out there with out a bar code on the front ?

Answer: well yes but I don't know as PCGS has no record of coin without a bar code in the  front.

3. Can I have a list or report on all the coins that PCGS has on record with a bar code on front

Answer: After talking to the person in charge of that coins series, we do not have a record like this but any code with a bar code on front will work in the population look up tool on the PCGS website.

So I show Peter the page wtc911coins.com and he was quite impressed and I think we can count on him for more information if he has any. If anybody has more burning questions I will be happy to talk to him about it.

No to the conclusion of what he said I take it that some coins are registered with the bar code and we can find numbers on them, but more coins not registered could surface and they just don't know one way or the other. I am however glad to know a little bit more about the WTC coins than I did before I talked to Peter from PCGS.

9 11 WTC SILVER EAGLE COIN FREEDOM STILL STANDS ART    US $3,599.10

1989 WTC Ground Zero Recovery Silver Eagle PCGS 911 World Trade Center Certified    US $185.00

1986 $50 American Gold Eagle PCGS MS69 WTC World Trade Center Recovery wtc 911    US $3,995.00

2001 American Silver Eagle Gem Uncirculated WTC Ground Zero Recovery    US $125.49

1998 $5 American Gold Eagle PCGS MS68 WTC World Trade Center Recovery wtc 911    US $795.00

1997 $50 American Gold Eagle PCGS MS69 WTC World Trade Center Recovery wtc 911    US $2,995.00

1998 $50 American Gold Eagle PCGS MS69 WTC World Trade Center Recovery wtc 911    US $2,995.00

1999 $50 American Gold Eagle PCGS MS69 WTC World Trade Center Recovery wtc 911    US $2,995.00

1999 $5 American Gold Eagle PCGS MS68 WTC World Trade Center Recovery wtc 911    US $695.00

2001 $10 Platinum Eagle PCGS MS69 WTC World Trade Center Recovery wtc 911    US $1,795.00

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911 Coins Of the Week On Ebay

This week its got to be the 911 coins that the seller Blue Moon Coins has up for sale.

They are selling out of some of their WTC coins and they have 2 auctions up for 24 1989 $1 Silver Eagle Coins and another auction for 15 wtc silver eagle 1993 coins. The coins are all graded Gem Uncirculated but the straight auction on these coins should give somebody a great deal.

24 $1 WTC 1989 and 15 $1 WTC 1993

$20 Gold Melted With 3 Silver Coins

A guy posted this picture of a $20 Gold Coin melted with 3 silver coins during the 1906 San Francisco Fire. The date of the gold coin cannot be read but the silver coins melted to the Gold coin during the fires in 1906 in San Francisco. This is just to give people on here an idea of what the fire can do to coins. The WTC coins where in a vault on only some of the coins has visible damage from the heat, but nothing like this coin.

Why Is Gold Falling In Price

I bought gold about 4 years ago as in my economical teachings I had always learn if the world are in a crises people will start buy gold as a safe investment. Well looking at the last month of turbulent markets all over the world gold has only gone one way and that has been down. So I wanted to find out what was different this time compared to what the books are telling us would happen when the market goes down. Well looking around on the web I found a great explanation at this blog.http://blog.adamnash.com/2008/10/24/why-the-price-of-gold-is-sinking-fast/ 

He Mr. Adam Nash is telling us that people are selling gold to meet margin calls on other investments they have so they have to sell gold. To me that sounds like a reasonable explanation considering the fast collapse of the US and world markets. But does it not also mean that if a hedge fund or mutual fund sells gold to meet market calls that they have to at sometime buy that gold back to keep their risk profile the same as they have advertised to consumers. I think it does and I think it means that the gold will go back up when the markets starts to stabilize again as the people selling gold now really have to sell but they don't want to sell. So they will buy back as their portfolio gets back in the black.

Well its funny to see how the WTC coins and bullion are not affected by the gold and silver price as 1oz. gold coins still sell for a minimum of $1,200 -1,400 and silver coins sell for a minimum of $70 with 1 oz of silver at $10. This makes WTC coins a much safer investment that regular bullion coins which I guess a few people have found out given the recent activity on E-bay. Right now over 150 world trade center coins are up for auction where a normal number in the last 6 month has been around 100 coins.

Gold Located In The WTC

I have gotten a few email about the gold coins and the silver coins and where they came from. A lot of people writing me wants to know, why all this gold and silver was located in the world trade center. I always send them an email back with the research that I have done that is located here. http://www.wtc911coins.com/topics/research-comdex-vault/

This will explain everything and it will show you the news paper clips from the time the gold was found. The bullion coins came from the bank of Nova Scotia where they where store at their vault.

If the story of where the gold coins came from has your interest the research is done just follow the link above and you will have everything in one place.

Coin Collections Value

Coin collections value is something we are all very concert about at this time of crises but history has shown that coin collections value will go up with time. For some coins value comes with time, like the Morgan Silver coins minted in Carlson City NV, with other coin collections like the World Trade Center coins a historic event happens and the coins gets instant historic value. Now if we all want to have a part of history and that was why we bought the WTC coins to being with very a we so interested in the WTC coins value today ? Well we are so here are two ways to keep up with the rising value of the coins. First you can use our Coin Forum where the value of these coins are talked about WTC Coins Forum Click Here. The other option is to keep up with the coins that are selling on E-bay here is a link for a special E-bay site where we keep up with the WTC coins. WTC Coins E-bay Auction Click Here.

Gold And Silver Coin

I thought this was interesting news.

Commodity Online CALIFORNIA: Popular gold and silver coins such as the one-ounce gold and silver American Eagles produced by United states Mint is not available for sale in the market and those who sell do it at a premium of 50 percent or more on spot price, according to Michael Maroney, Vice President, Monex Deposit Company.

"One-ounce and smaller gold and silver coins . . . ten-ounce and hundred-ounce silver bars . . . ten-ounce ingots and 32.15 ounce "kilobars" of gold have virtually disappeared from the marketplace," explains Maroney. "They're in private hands now, and people are holding onto them, unwilling to sell them back into the market."

"We've seen a tremendous increase in demand for these tangible assets from private, individual investors who are, quite frankly, shocked and appalled at the steep decline in the value of many of their paper assets over the past few months. These people are angry, they're scared and it appears that many have come to the conclusion that one of the very few reasonable investment alternatives at the present time can be found in the physical precious metals markets," says Maroney.

But many people are discovering that one-ounce and smaller gold and silver coins are becoming harder and harder to find every day, according to Maroney. When these coins can be found, says Maroney, sellers are demanding (and receiving) premiums of up to 50% or more over the per-ounce spot price. "Investors are getting a classic lesson in the laws of supply and demand," says Maroney. "When demand increases for a declining supply of anything, the price tends to increase."

"It's the exact opposite of what's been happening in the 'paper investment' world," notes Maroney. "In stocks, in real estate and other 'paper-based' markets, demand is actually decreasing for an increasing supply of 'paper'. . . and accordingly, we're seeing far lower and even plunging prices in these markets," says Maroney.

"As a result," says Maroney, "I see this as a 'Red Alert' buy signal for investors who may be interested in buying precious metals. The time to buy gold and silver is when prices are relatively low, and when there are supplies available. Prices right now are well below the historic highs set earlier in the year.

And although Monex still has plenty of gold and silver bullion and coin products available, the supply squeeze is starting to affect us as well. I believe physical supplies of metal will continue to tighten, perhaps dramatically so, and I believe prices are going to skyrocket in the not too distant future. There may never be a better time to buy gold and silver than right now," reasons Maroney.

According to Maroney, "Gold and silver have traditionally been held as hedges against both economic and political uncertainty for centuries. And it's no secret that there's a lot of uncertainty throughout the world right now. The U.S. government has bailed out one troubled financial institution after another this year, costing taxpayers at least $700 billion, and counting. Our national debt is now well over $10 trillion. Banks have gone bust. The stock markets are off more than 20% (so far) this month alone! Housing prices have been plummeting with foreclosure rates at unprecedented levels. It's a mess out there right now."

"In troubled times, investors quite naturally gravitate towards 'safe haven' investments that tend to offer more stability and intrinsic value than 'paper investments,'" says Maroney. "Gold and silver fill that bill for many investors. Owning something that is real and tangible . . . something that people have held onto during the 'bad times' for centuries . . . something that the politicians and Wall Street types can't easily manipulate - well, it's no surprise that gold and silver are of great interest to a wide range of people today."

"And at today's relatively low price levels - prices today are 30% to 40% below March 2008 market highs - this could be an ideal time to get started in precious metals or add to an existing position," says Maroney. "As I look around the world's markets right now, I can't see much outside of precious metals that I'd want to own right now. The future for 'paper investments' looks pretty bleak to me. Gold and silver, though, that's a different story. It's pretty obvious that lots of people want precious metals right now."

Says Monex Deposit Company VP Mike Maroney, "If you're worried or concerned about what you seeing happening in this country and around the world right now, and how that could affect your wealth in the years ahead, I think you owe it to yourself to find out how precious metals could or should become a part of your portfolio of investments. We talk to thousands of people a day about that very subject. And an amazing number of them are buying right now . . . more and more people, every single day."

(Courtesy: PRWeb Press Release Newswire)

The 2 rare Silver Eagles 1993

So what are the story about the MS68 and MS69 1993 $1 Silver Eagle from the World Trade Center, these two coins are by most collectors though of as the most rare WTC $1 Silver coins found at the WTC. On this site the number estimated for each coin is about 120 pieces of each found. However these numbers are always questioned, especially when and very know coin seller comes out with numbers of 20 coins found of the MS69 1993 coin. So if the real number is somewhere between 20 and 120 coins only PCGS knows. But no matter what the population of these two coins are one thing is for sure these are the 2 lowest population coins found at the world trade center for the $1 Silver Eagle. These coins are price between $900 and $2000 on E-bay.

If anybody has any other information to share about the MS68 or MS69 1993 silver dollar please share it here or in our forum.

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WTC Eagle

WTC Eagle is what many people call these coins as they came from the World Trade Center. The WTC Eagle where both Silver and Platinum Eagle coins that where found. The coins has a historic value to most of us WTC collectors.

Coin Collector

Coin Collector wake up and discover these beautiful coins of history in our time, the WTC coins certified by PCGS as WTC Ground Zero Recovery. These coins are absolutely beautiful in their original American Flag pedigree insert by PCGS. These coins are our history and they are still available at prices where everybody can be a buyer at these price. If you wait many more years the only coins that will be available will be the silver eagles from the world trade center. Gold and Silver coins will be gone.

$1 Silver Eagle Coin Prices

So I am going to do this section a little bit different. I am going to update the price of the different dates in the $1 Silver Eagle WTC coins each quarter.

Updated May 2008

So this is the first update from May 2008 it might give so indication to population of these coins other than what is on other pages on this site. The 1993 MS69 should have a population of 120 coins and the 1987 MS 69 should be around 400 coins.

9 11 WTC SILVER EAGLE COIN FREEDOM STILL STANDS ART    US $3,599.10

1989 WTC Ground Zero Recovery Silver Eagle PCGS 911 World Trade Center Certified    US $185.00

2001 American Silver Eagle Gem Uncirculated WTC Ground Zero Recovery    US $125.49

1989 $1 Silver Eagle WTC Ground Zero Recovery PCGS Collectors Universe Gem UNC    US $179.00

1987 MS69 SILVER EAGLE PCGS WTC 9 11 01 GROUND ZERO RECOVERY VERY RARE ★BONUS★    US $299.99

2001 US Silver Eagle WTC World Trade Center Recovered Coin 1 oz NTC z604    US $125.00

American Silver Eagle 2001 WTC World Trade Center Recovered Coin 1 oz NTC z605    US $125.00

2001 $1 Silver Eagle PCGS MS69 WTC Ground Zero Recovery 9 11 01    US $202.51

2001 NTC WTC Recovered American Silver Eagle 1oz    US $62.00

2001 SILVER EAGLE PCGS GEM UNCIRCULATED 9 11 01 WTC GROUND ZERO RECOVERY    US $102.50

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