Fake 9/11 Commemorative Coins

[jeffrey]

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer on Wednesday obtained a court order to temporarily suspend the sale of commemorative Sept. 11 coins heavily advertised as being minted from silver recovered from ground zero.
Spitzer said the sale of the silver dollars emblazoned with the World Trade Center towers on one side and the planned Freedom Tower on the flip side is a fraud and he's investigating the claim the silver came from the ruins of the twin towers...

The TV and print ads include one fashioned after a news story that reads: "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 ... Most importantly, each coin has been created using .999 pure silver recovered from ground zero!"

Tom Conway, head of the state's Consumer Frauds and Protection Bureau, said an investigation into the company began with consumer complaints and a referral from the U.S. Mint, which issued a notice on its Web site that the coin "is not a legally authorized government issued" product... [read more at usatoday.com]