national collectors mint site down

New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has gotten a court order to shutdown the National Collectors Mint web site temporarily.

An article in USA Today has more details.

Three cheers for Eliot Sptizer!

Update: I was recently contacted by Judy Hoffman, affiliated with the National Collector’s Mint, to request that I correct the information posted above because it was not entirely accurate. The web site was taken down for a period of time, but it was not due to the court ruling. It was done voluntarily by the National Collectors Mint so they could review their advertising for the commemorative coin. The court ruling temporarily suspended the sale of the commemorative Sept. 11 coins and did not involve the web site.