Beware of Fake 9/11 Coins

Just before Christmas, retired NYPD Capt. Tom DePrisco saw a TV commercial at his fiancée's house and his "blood began to boil."

The commercial was for a 10th anniversary Sept. 11 commemorative dollar coin issued by the National Collector's Mint out of Westchester. The ad said this exploitative trinket featured "the skyline of the twin towers."

But what roiled DePrisco's Brooklyn blood was the phrase "clad in a total 14 mg. 999 pure silver actually recovered from the vaults beneath the ashes of Ground Zero."

"That's just pure bull----," said DePrisco, who after 9/11 was assigned to the city Office of Emergency Management to help handle recovery efforts around Ground Zero.

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