World Trade Centre

[bigjarofwasps]

Hi Guys found this whilst surfing the net, thought it might be of interest...

We have a rare opportunity to own a piece of history that has touched our own lives. There are few Americans who do not remember exactly where they were on the morning of September 11, 2001. Those of us who were able watched the events of that day and we will never forget the fate of the planes and the twin towers. We have all watched the clean up at ground zero and the events that have led our troops into Afghanistan. Those who have wanted some connection to September 11 have acquired all sorts of memorabilia but until now nothing that came right from the source.

Because of the total devastation of the twin towers there is virtually nothing left. The few items that have been salvaged will be part of the memorial at the site of the former towers. But remarkably there was a Comex vault located in the basement of the World Trade Center that contained around two hundred million dollars of gold and silver bullion that survived.

On the night of November 1, 2001 as the work proceeded on the ground zero clean up the workers made there way to the vault and with little fanfare a caravan of Brinks armored trucks hauled the bullion to another Comex vault. Some of the silver eagles and a small amount of gold was sent directly to the Professional Coin Grading Service. These coins were sealed in their patented tamper resistent holders with a certificate of authentication certifiying that the coin is one of the few that was excavated from the World Trade Center site.

To hold one of these coins in your hand gives you a very strange feeling. This is an artifact from one of the biggest events of the century and one that touches so many people intimately. We were fortunate to pick up just a handfull of these extremely popular coins and are able to offer them to you.

Gem Uncirculated 9-11-01 World Trade Center Ground Zero Recovery Silver Eagle Certified Authentic by the Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS), the number one grading service.

[bigjarofwasps]

Hey buddy, wanna buy a piece of Ground Zero?

The National Collectors Mint is marketing a new commemorative silver dollar that, to me, seems repugnantly morbid.

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. It's the U.S. territorial minting of the 2004 "Freedom Tower" Silver Dollar from CNMI. Each coin has been clad in .999 Pure Silver recovered from Ground Zero!

The coin's detail page goes on to explain more of the story:

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.

During the EPA cleanup of the World Trade Center site, recycling "was done with the eye that we didn't want materials to show up on eBay as souvenir items." New York state law bans street vendors from operating within five blocks of the World Trade Center site. But these attempts, and plenty of others, of course haven't stopped the merchandising of Sept. 11.

As for these Collector's Mint coins, I agree with the sentiment: "We will never forget." But the somber reminder is belied by the company's opportunism, and most of all by the repellent marketing. "The silver used in each gleaming dollar coin is from Ground Zero!" Sorry, that's just not a sentence you can end with an exclamation point without disgusting me. Act now! Collect 'em all! Make me puke.

The private National Collector's Mint trades off of people assuming it's somehow related to the official mint of the U.S. government. And it probably goes without saying, but according to the U.S. Mint website: "Congress did not authorize the National Collector's Mint product, and the United States Government does not endorse it."

[bigjarofwasps]

There seems to be no shortage, of these coins dispite, claims by Ebay sellers. I`m not sure just how genuine they are?

I`ve also discovered gold $50`s all alledged to be from the WTC...

2001

WTC Recovery Ground Zero

$50 AMERICAN GOLD EAGLE

1 OF 269

Only 269 of these coins exist!

ONE FULL OUNCE OF GOLD!

and by the same dealer...

2001

WTC Recovery Ground Zero

$50

AMERICAN GOLD EAGLE

Only 24 of these coins exist!

ONE FULL OUNCE OF GOLD!

Not sure how there can be both only 24 and 169 of this 2001 $50 coin, maybe someone with a greater knowledge could shine some light on this....

And theres more....

WTC RECOVERY

1991

$50 AMERICAN EAGLE GOLD COIN!

One Ounce Pure Gold!

PCGS MS69

I`ve been unable to find anything on the net reporting the salvage of all these coins, or how many have been recovered of both gold & silver and what years, does anyone know?

[bigjarofwasps]

2001

WTC Recovery Ground Zero

$100

AMERICAN PLATINUM EAGLE

Only 5 of these coins exist!

ONE FULL OUNCE OF PLATINUM!

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Coin News January 2005 reported….

Although we understand that the US Congress may be considering issuing a coin to commemorate the tragedy of September the 11, 2001 no official designs have yet been seen, However, an enterprising private mint has produced a “coin” which bears the denomination `one dollar` and is purported to be struck using silver salvaged from the remains of the ill fated Twin Towers. Apparently these items are neither legal tender nor, it would seem are they made from silver genuinely rescued from the disaster! The New York Attorney General is considering prosecuting the Port Chester mint and has obtained a temporary restraining order prohibiting the sale of these coins. A number of unofficial medallions and other souvenirs have been produced by various get-rich-quick private mints in commemoration of September 11 but this is the first to carry a denomination which of course is illegal.

[mariner]

There seems to be no shortage, of these coins dispite, claims by Ebay sellers. I`m not sure just how genuine they are?

I`ve also discovered gold $50`s all alledged to be from the WTC...

2001

WTC Recovery Ground Zero

$50 AMERICAN GOLD EAGLE

1 OF 269

Only 269 of these coins exist!

ONE FULL OUNCE OF GOLD!

and by the same dealer...

2001

WTC Recovery Ground Zero

$50

AMERICAN GOLD EAGLE

Only 24 of these coins exist!

ONE FULL OUNCE OF GOLD!

Not sure how there can be both only 24 and 169 of this 2001 $50 coin, maybe someone with a greater knowledge could shine some light on this....

And theres more....

WTC RECOVERY

1991

$50 AMERICAN EAGLE GOLD COIN!

One Ounce Pure Gold!

PCGS MS69

I`ve been unable to find anything on the net reporting the salvage of all these coins, or how many have been recovered of both gold & silver and what years, does anyone know?

I think I right in saying that one of the coins is a gen uncirculated & the other has PCGS graded.

Edited June 25, 2007 by mariner

[mariner]

"the 1987 MS69 American Silver Eagles recovered from the World Trade Center Recovery. This coins is far more rare than the 2001 which is trending over $300. This is the most rare MS69 Silver Eagle recovered from the WTC next to the 1993. You need to own at least one of these, more if you can.

On November 1, 2001 nearly 2 months after the disaster that changed our country forever, these American Eagles were recovered intact within the Iron Mountain Vault located under the World Trade Center. Most would agree that is is a miracle that anything survived.

Under heavy guard, these coins were hauled away by Brinks and stored under lock and key until they were certifed and graded by PCGS.

This Gold Eagle will come with a Flag Coin Holder that will protect and enhance your investment.

There are less than 1000 of these 1987 Silver Eagles that PCGS certified as MS-69 that survived the disaster, a truly outstanding collectible!"

Edited June 25, 2007 by mariner

[Chris Boonzaier]

I bet those Nigerian spammers are behind it !!!

"I have 50 000 000 in gold salvaged from the WTC... send me your bank account number... blah...bla...blah..."

[bigjarofwasps]

I bet those Nigerian spammers are behind it !!!

"I have 50 000 000 in gold salvaged from the WTC... send me your bank account number... blah...bla...blah..."

Chris thats very sharp, well done!!!

[bigjarofwasps]

Millions in gold and silver recovered from WTC

Updated Wed. Oct. 31 2001 7:37 PM ET

CTV News Staff

As part of the recovery operation at the World Trade Center in New York, a Toronto-based Bank of Nova Scotia has reclaimed more than $250 million in gold and silver from ground zero.

The precious metals were locked away in a vault at 4 World Trade Center.

"I think we have most of it. I'm not sure we have all of it yet,'' Mayor Rudolph Giuliani told reporters Wednesday.

Armoured cars were seen on Wednesday heading to and from the site. Guiliani later confirmed that the vehicles were carrying the treasure.

Bank of Nova Scotia spokesperson Pam Agnew declined to offer any details about the removal effort.

"For safety and security reasons, I don't want to give away any details that could put people's lives at risk,'' she said.

Agnew did say that bank officials were always confident that the buried treasure was safe.

The precious metals were buried under millions of tonnes of wreckage when Building 4 collapsed along with the twin towers on Sept. 4.

The eight vault employees who kept watch over the gold and silver before the attacks escaped unharmed.

The recovery of the gold and silver has now cleared the way for the complete demolition and cleanup of the Building 4 site.

[bigjarofwasps]

"American Silver Eagle Dollars found buried under the World Trade Center debris in what was once the IRON MOUNTAIN DEPOSITORY VAULTS, some how, Amazingly some of these coins survived. The years that were reported recovered were the 1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 2000, and the 2001."

On November 1, 2001 nearly 2 months after the disaster that changed our country forever, these American Eagles were recovered intact within the Iron Mountain Vault located under the World Trade Center. Most would agree that is is a miracle that anything survived.

Under heavy guard, these coins were hauled away by Brinks and stored under lock and key until they were certifed and graded by PCGS.

It seems that 1000`s were recovered in various conditions, however 1987 & 1993 seem to be the rarest examples. I think I`m right in saying that the commest is the 2001, which is interesting, for the obvious reason that this was the year of the diaster, and secondly because, these coins must have come straight from the mint, and into the WTC vaults.

[bigjarofwasps]

Closure: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Recovery Mission

"One of the four Operations Commanders of the World Trade Center site chronicles the rescue and recovery mission at Ground Zero from September 11, 2001, through the end of operations on May 30, 2002, while telling the story of his own struggle to make peace with all that he saw there. On the morning of 9/11, the Port Authority Police Department was the first uniformed service to respond to the attack on the World Trade Center. When the towers collapsed, thirty seven of its officers were killed the largest loss of law enforcement officers in U.S. history. That afternoon, Lieutenant William Keegan began the work of recovery. The FDNY and NYPD had the territory, but Keegan had the map. PA cops could stand on top of six stories of debris and point to where a stairwell had been; they used PATH tunnels to enter "the pile" from underneath. Closure includes many never before told stories, including how Keegan and his officers recovered 1,000 tons of gold and silver from a secret vault to keep the Commodities Exchange from crashing; discovered what appeared to be a black box from one of the planes that hit the towers; and helped raise the inspirational steel beam cross that has become the site's icon. For nine brutal months, the men at Ground Zero wrestled with 1.8 million tons of shattered concrete, twisted steel, body parts, political pressure, and their own grief. Closure tells the unforgettable story of their sacrifice and valor, and how Keegan led the smallest of all the uniformed services at the site to become the most valuable. "

Title of ebook: Closure: The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Recovery Mission

ISBN: 1416540962

Publisher: Touchstone

File Size: 1356 kb

Released online for download: 09-11-2006

Author: Keegan, William, Jr.

AA: Davis, Bart,

[bigjarofwasps]

November 1, 2001

THE VAULT Below Ground Zero, Silver and Gold

By JIM DWYER

About two weeks ago, a security team spotted scorch marks on a basement doorway below 4 World Trade Center, on the east side of the ruined complex, according to officials. Even in a place of mass devastation and death, those scorch marks got fast attention. They had not been noticed by a patrol team a few hours earlier, and behind the damaged — but intact — door were nearly a thousand tons of gold and silver. To security officials, it looked as if someone had tried to break in. Within hours, a video surveillance system was installed to keep at least an electronic eye on the precious metals until their custodian, the Bank of Nova Scotia, had a chance to remove them. That work began this week.

A team of 30 firefighters and police officers are helping to move the metals, a task that can be measured practically down to the flake but that has been rounded off at 379,036 ounces of gold and 29,942,619 ounces of silver.

As layers of debris are peeled away, recovery workers are opening gangways to intact portions of a 16- acre basement that was largely unseen but was a place of spectacular scope in its own right. Just the basement area of the World Trade Center enclosed twice as much space as the entire Empire State Building.

Nearly a quarter of a mile below the spectacular vistas from the towers was their upside-down attic dropping 70 feet below the ground, a strange world with enough room for fortunes in gold and silver, for Godiva chocolates, assault weapons, old furniture, bricks of cocaine, phony taxicabs and Central Intelligence Agency files. With so many people still lost, the owners of this stuff have maintained a discreet silence during the recovery operations. But that doesn't mean they're not interested.

Beneath the Customs House — 6 World Trade Center — was an armada of government vehicles, including dozens owned by the Secret Service, in a fenced-off area. Within that area was a garage where a single armored limousine was parked under the tightest security. The limousine was so long that it needed straight-line access to the street, because it could not clear tight corners in the basement. That car had been used to carry heads of state visiting the city, said Tony Ball, a spokesman for the Secret Service. (The president's limousines are stored in Washington and flown everywhere he visits.)

In the 1993 trade center bombing, an armored Secret Service limousine was parked about 100 feet from a truck bomb. Although the bomb crashed through five stories of concrete and the concussion destroyed cars all over that floor, the Secret Service limousine "did not even have a broken windshield," according to a government official on the scene that day. The condition of the limousine after September's attack was not known yesterday. "We haven't gotten anything back yet," Mr. Ball said.

Asked about reports that his agency also kept what looked like ordinary taxis and telephone company trucks in the basement, Mr. Ball laughed. "What I would say is that it is not unusual for law enforcement agencies to have these kinds of things," he said. Besides the Secret Service, the building named for the United States Customs Service also housed an office of the C.I.A.

That building is now partly collapsed, with a rubble pit 30 feet deep. Somewhere in there are drugs, weapons and contraband seized by the Customs Service at the region's airports. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms also lost two evidence vaults, according to a spokesman for that agency, Joseph Green. They have not yet been recovered. "There could be several hundred weapons — somewhere between 200 and 400, ranging from small-caliber semiautomatic pistols to assault rifles," Mr. Green said, adding that a few of the guns had been found. Agents plan to be on the scene when the remains of the building are demolished sometime in the next two weeks, he said. "After that, we'll be working at the landfill to search for any important items that are still missing."

For people who have seen the surface destruction, either in pictures or in person, it may be hard to imagine that anything is intact below ground. But engineers and recovery officials say that large parts of the underground perimeter are undamaged, even though the buildings above them are partly collapsed.

One area is below 4 World Trade Center, where more than two decades ago, Swiss Bank built a huge vault and storage area. The vault was reached from the Swiss Bank offices by a private elevator.

To reach the vaults, armored trucks would drive through what had once been the tunnels for the Hudson and Manhattan railroad, the predecessor of the PATH system. These tunnels had run as far east as Church Street, but were not needed when the trade center was built and the PATH terminal was set closer to the river. The western stubs of the original tunnels, ringed with cast iron, were converted into roadways. These roads ran directly to a roll-down door in front of the Swiss Bank vault area. Inside was a loading dock.

By the time of the 1993 bombing, Swiss Bank no longer was using the vault, and shortly afterward, the bank relocated its remaining operations. The next tenant of the vault space was the Bank of Nova Scotia, which estimated the value of the metals at $200 million.

"We are in the process of relocating the contents of our vault at World Trade Center building No. 4 to another secure location, because authorities need to demolish the building," Pam Agnew, a spokeswoman for the bank, said yesterday by phone from Toronto. Some of the metal is owned by the bank, and some by its customers, she said. She declined to say where the metals were being taken. "The contents remain safe and intact," Ms. Agnew said. "The contents are fully insured. We're working very closely with local authorities to ensure a safe and secure relocation effort. "The removal of the contents was not a priority for us because we've always known it was safe and secure," Ms. Agnew said. Asked about what appeared to be an attempted break-in two weeks ago, Ms. Agnew said that she was unaware of it. Later, she called to reiterate that the metals were safe: "It would be factually incorrect to say there had been any attempt to steal the contents of our vault."

However, a government official involved in the recovery efforts said that there had clearly been an attempt within the last two weeks to enter the vault area. "It looked like they used a blowtorch, a crowbar," said the official, who spoke on the condition that neither his name nor his position be identified. "The Port Authority police began periodic patrols, and then a closed-circuit television system was put in."

The bank also engaged Kroll Inc., a security business based in New York, to supervise the relocation of the gold and silver, a process that began this week, The Daily News reported yesterday. Michael Cherkasky, the president of Kroll, declined to comment on his company's involvement. Anyone trying to make off with the gold would not be able to run very fast: each ingot weighs 70 pounds.

[bigjarofwasps]

Cache of Gold Found at WTC

Two truckloads retrieved through a tunnel in rubble

By GREG GITTRICH, THOMAS ZAMBITO and LEO STANDORA

Daily News Staff Writers

Workers at Ground Zero unearthed last night [Ed.Com: Oct, 2001] a buried treasure of gold, hidden for weeks under the ruins of the World Trade Center.

As a small army of federal agents with shotguns and automatic rifles stood guard, city cops and firefighters packed two Brink's armored trucks with the lode, sources said.

This is not a shocker, as it was rumored that as much as $160 Billion in bullion was stored under the Trade Center. Let's read on.

The sources said the gold was found in a delivery tunnel under 5 World Trade Center.

(snip)

Officials finally got to the gold through that tunnel yesterday, after workers hauled out a 10-wheel truck, several crushed cars and mounds of debris.

No bodies were recovered during the operation.

(snip)

As workers inched closer to the gold yesterday, authorities began restricting access to the north side of Ground Zero and FBI and Secret Service agents joined cops and firefighters at the site.

(snip)

The Toronto-based Bank of Nova Scotia has said its vault under 4 World Trade Center alone held more than $200 million in gold and silver. Bank spokeswoman Pam Agnew didn't immediately know if any of that gold was found last night.

Other companies are believed to have lost untold gold and valuables in the disaster.

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Buried WTC gold returns to futures trade

A fortune in gold trapped for seven weeks in the ruins of the World Trade Center officially returned to the global bullion trade Friday, but dealers had already closed the book on the tale of tragedy and buried treasure.

"You could in theory say that if things had gone much worse since September 11 and there had been rampant demand or something like that, that it might have been a story that affected the price. But at this point, I don't think it really was," said a metals specialist at a large commodity brokerage.

The $230 million in precious metals has been moved from the basement vaults of ScotiaMocatta Depository at 4 WTC, where it was stored on behalf of the New York Mercantile Exchange when the September 11 attacks brought down the twin towers. All warehouse staff got out safely.

In a joint statement Friday, NYBOT and ScotiaMocatta, the metals trading division of Canada's Bank of Nova Scotia, said the metals had been relocated and were again available to guaranty delivery of futures contracts exchange traded at the COMEX metals division of the NYMEX.

"All of the silver, gold, platinum, and palladium stored in its vaults at 4 World Trade Center have been successfully relocated by an Exchange-approved carrier to a newly Exchange-licensed Brink's Inc depository in Brooklyn," they said.

Spurred by authorities who wanted to demolish the building, by the potential for crime, and by whatever has always driven men to hunt for gold, emergency crews dug through the rubble and got a first glimpse of the gleaming booty on Oct 30.

Guarded by a small army of heavily armed federal agents, city policemen and firefighters began the massive task of moving about 12 tonnes of gold and 30 million ounces of silver. The hoard was estimated to be worth at least $230 million.

There were about 3,800 100-Troy-ounce registered gold bars in the underground COMEX warehouse. While gold is very dense, the task of loading the indestructible yellow metal onto armoured Brinks trucks was not nearly as cumbersome as moving the silver.

Experts said it would take some 50 tractor trailers to transport 30,000 1,000-ounce silver bars.

On top of that, it is believed that other treasures were kept in the vaults, including additional precious metals, jewels and securities. But there has been no information on whether these valuables were there or recovered.

ScotiaMocatta has applied to establish a new exchange-licensed depository in New York for silver, gold, platinum and palladium. Upon approval, the metal being held in ScotiaMocatta's custodial account at Brinks will be relocated to this facility, they said.

The NYMEX has another warehouse in Manhattan, operated by HSBC Bank USA.

Despite initial concern among precious metals dealers, the temporary lack of access to the metal hardly caused a ripple in the markets. The buried gold amounted to about 2 per cent of the 600-tonne-a-day global bullion market.

The metal was insured and supply was available from facilities at refiners elsewhere in the United States, though some may have been remelted into the 100-ounce bars of 99.5 per cent pure gold to meet COMEX delivery specifications.

The exchange said it plans to rescind its emergency rules which allowed an individual or firm taking delivery of metal under the terms of a futures contract to reject a warrant -- a document giving title -- for metal on deposit at the buried ScotiaMocatta vault.

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Examples recovered....

1) WTC 1987 Gem Silver Eagle

2) WTC 1987 MS69 Silver Eagle

3) WTC 1989 Gem Silver Eagle

4) WTC 1991 Gem Silver Eagle

5) WTC 1991 MS69 Silver Eagle

6) WTC 1993 Gem Silver Eagle

7) WTC 1993 MS68 Silver Eagle

8) WTC 1993 MS69 Silver Eagle (only 120 exist)

9) WTC 2000 Gem Silver Eagle

10) WTC 2001 Gem Silver Eagle

11) WTC 2001 MS68 Silver Eagle

12) WTC 2001 MS69 Silver Eagle

[Dave Danner]

The precious metals were locked away in a vault at 4 World Trade Center.

...

The precious metals were buried under millions of tonnes of wreckage when Building 4 collapsed along with the twin towers on Sept. 4.

Obviously, that should be Sept. 11, not Sept. 4.

However, Tower 4 did not collapse on Sept. 11. It and Tower 5 were badly damaged by debris, but were still standing on Sept. 12. I know this because I was in Tower 4 on Sept. 12, as we were performing search and rescue (which became search and recovery) and were looking for ways down into the labyrinth of tunnels, mall concourses, etc. under the WTC complex. We were working in the area between 4 and 5, pulling out debris and climbing and rapelling down underground, when there was a warning that the Millennium Hotel behind us, a tall narrow building, might collapse. My team went back to the other side, between Tower 1 and Tower 2, where the main effort was still concentrated.

The hotel never fell, and still looks out over Ground Zero, but 4 and 5 did. IIRC, they were demolished as part of the cleanup.

[bigjarofwasps]

Hi Dave,

Yes I`m sure your right, this is obviously a typing error from my source. I`ve been unable to confirm which tower these Iron Mountain Vaults, were underneath, maybe you can shine some light on this. I just assumed, that the vaults were under the WTC in general.

Very interested to hear that you were there!!!! Where/are part of the NY emergancy services, or just some guy who rolled his sleeves up and got stuck in? Either way respect respect respect!!!!!!

Gordon.

[mariner]

Not just American silver & gold coins it seems...

WTC Ground Zero Recovery 1989 $5 Maple Leaf Canada...Item number: 250136766427

[Dave Danner]

Hi Dave,

Yes I`m sure your right, this is obviously a typing error from my source. I`ve been unable to confirm which tower these Iron Mountain Vaults, were underneath, maybe you can shine some light on this. I just assumed, that the vaults were under the WTC in general.

Very interested to hear that you were there!!!! Where/are part of the NY emergancy services, or just some guy who rolled his sleeves up and got stuck in? Either way respect respect respect!!!!!!

Gordon.

September 11 was my first day of work in New York after law school and taking the bar exam. I left work and went to Ground Zero. There were a bunch of us who were military and were caught in the city - regulars on leave, reservists and National Guard, from every service and ranging from privates to colonels. We formed teams and joined with the police and fire and other rescue workers. It was initially search and rescue, but pretty quickly came to be search and recovery as there wasn't anyone alive to find. As sad as that was, that is actually a testament to those first responders who gave their lives, because they managed to get out of the area most of the people who could get out before the towers collapsed. Otherwise there could easily have been over 20,000 dead as initially feared.

[bigjarofwasps]

September 11 was my first day of work in New York after law school and taking the bar exam. I left work and went to Ground Zero. There were a bunch of us who were military and were caught in the city - regulars on leave, reservists and National Guard, from every service and ranging from privates to colonels. We formed teams and joined with the police and fire and other rescue workers. It was initially search and rescue, but pretty quickly came to be search and recovery as there wasn't anyone alive to find. As sad as that was, that is actually a testament to those first responders who gave their lives, because they managed to get out of the area most of the people who could get out before the towers collapsed. Otherwise there could easily have been over 20,000 dead as initially feared.

Dave, that is truely amazing, what a story, to be able to tell you gran kids. Tough first day at work or what!!!! Prior to your law training which service were you in? Gordon.

[bigjarofwasps]

Not just American silver & gold coins it seems...

WTC Ground Zero Recovery 1989 $5 Maple Leaf Canada...Item number: 250136766427

Krugerrands, Gold Eagles, Maple Leafs, and other bullion coins also been slabbed.

[mariner]

Coins from these countries were also recovered, I believe...

1) Mexico

2) Uruguay

3) Hungary

4) Austria

5) South Africa

6) Canada

7) Australia

8) USA

9) Jamaica

10) England

Edited July 1, 2007 by mariner

[Dave Danner]

Dave, that is truely amazing, what a story, to be able to tell you gran kids. Tough first day at work or what!!!! Prior to your law training which service were you in? Gordon.

I served in the Army from 1992 to 1997, initially with a Special Forces Group, and then after being commissioned, as an infantry officer.

[bigjarofwasps]

Watched a very interest documentary about the whole 911 thing, its called `Loose Change`, if you haven`t seen it its well worth a watch. It poses some interesting views of the whole incident, some very embarresing issues for the US government, I shouldn`t wonder. It also has a small bit about the gold in the vaults, under the WTC.