About the archive’s curator
Jacob Malherbe is the founder and curator of WTC 911 Coins and the author of its original WTC Coins guide. His research on this site dates back to 2008 and brings together coin photographs, recovery-label documentation, historical population figures and sale records. The archive preserves dated research and credits original authors where their bylines are available. It is an independent collector resource, not a grading or authentication service.
Welcome to WTC911COINS.com. The goal of this website is bring together as much accurate information as possible regarding any WTC recovered coin and to freely share it for the enjoyment of the entire world numismatic community. As of June 5, 2008, there is absolutely no information to be found anywhere about these historical coins anywhere on the web and we hope to change that very soon.
It is hard to believe that after 7 years since their introduction into the numismatic community; only 10% to 20% of the entire population in the United States knows that these coins even exist. These coins were not minted from gold, silver or platinum recovered at ground zero in New York as others claim, these coins were actually there and buried under tons and tons of debris. After hundreds of hours of hard work, the rescue workers at ground zero reached the vaults on November 11, 2001 and were then removed by a convoy of Brinks armored trucks under the cover of darkness guarded by an army of security agents.
We hope to have high resolution pictures of every coin recovered but that is going to take time. The current population of these coins is probably not completely accurate but that is as close as we can get it for now. The website is free to every numismatist worldwide and we hope that you will use it as a reference tool when purchasing or trading any of the World trade Center recovered coins. Be sure and tell all of your friends about this website and we hope that in due time it will be the number one website to gather information about any World trade Center recovered coin.
We will keep working hard on this website for you the collector to ensure that you will make a sound decision when purchasing any of these historical pieces.
We hope you enjoy our site as much as we enjoy building it for you?
Please contact me with any questions at this email questions@wtc911coins.com
Archive curated by Jacob Malherbe. Original publication: . Page presentation updated ; historical claims remain dated to their original publication.