The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 23, June 10, 2007, Article 27

SILVER SURFER QUARTERS APPEAR ON EBAY

Tom Fort forwarded a new article from the New York Times about 
the Silver Surfer quarters.

"The studio behind a coming summer movie, “Fantastic Four: Rise 
of the Silver Surfer,” has roused the ire of the United States 
Mint with its promotional gimmick for the film, in which Marvel 
Comics superheroes battle a metallic alien.

"The altered coins (which are not in fact silver) were 
distributed nationwide in the period leading up to Memorial Day. 

"Some of the Silver Surfer quarters have shown up on eBay, where 
collectors have paid as much as $149 each — a high price for a 
quarter, but modest in comparison to the $250-plus that was bid 
recently for an original copy of the first issue of the Silver 
Surfer comic book."

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"SILVER SURFER" ALTERED QUARTERS DRAW U.S. MINT IRE
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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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