Silver Surfer in a Quarter?!?!? WTF?!?!
 

(http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=113425)

Check your change.

This year, U.S. quarter collectors will not only be on the hunt for 2007?s state editions, but also the Silver Surfer quarter as well.

Seriously.

If it all comes off without a hitch, it?s one of the better movie promotions for a comic book film in a long time: Fox and The Franklin Mint have teamed to create a limited ?Silver Surfer U.S. Quarter? (mocked up version art seen here), which will still maintain its 25 cent value as legal tender.

According to the plan for the promotion, a fleet of silver armored trucks have been loaded with the coins, will leave from the Twentieth Century Fox lot to deliver quarters across the United States, and on May 22nd, 40,000 Silver Surfer quarters will be put into circulation across the country.

From the official rules:

Those who find the Silver Surfer coin can go to the movie website (http://www.riseofthesilversurfer.com/) and register to win a Four-day trip for Four to the World Premiere of Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer in London. The grand prize winner will be announced on June 1st.

The first Four people to go online to report Silver Surfer coin findings will receive a special private screening of Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer for their friends and family in their hometown the night before the film?s nationwide release (June 14th).

Every person who finds a Silver Surfer coin will be eligible to visit the movie?s website on a daily basis to flip the virtual coin for a chance to win Fantastic instant prizes.

thats cool

Don't you find it disturbing that currency is used as a form of promotional advertising? What's next, a dollar with Stan Lee?

Who cares???

Well, I'm off to the local arcade...er, wait, most of them don't use quarters any more....they've all gone to tokens...

Are you guys that retarded?

"If it all comes off without a hitch, it?s one of the better movie promotions for a comic book film in a long time: Fox and The Franklin Mint have teamed to create a limited ?Silver Surfer U.S. Quarter? (mocked up version art seen here), which will still maintain its 25 cent value as legal tender. "

Sorry the Franklin Mint does not mint nor does it have the authority to mint legal tender.

Yeah... this has got to be a joke.

I also don't see anything about it on the Silver Surfer homepage.

I put my quarters in a can, wait till it's full, then go to one of those coin star things and get maybe $50 out of it

haha USA is becoming a fucking joke.

Thats bullshit. The franklin mint has nothing to do with the US mint. and I donthink that would ever happen.

You will see Bush on there first

BTW, sorry about posting a non-GFY board-related article. My bad.

they do have it mentioned on their myspace page

http://www.myspace.com/riseofthesilversurfer

I'm masturbating to this right now!

already been a joke for years :upsidedow

That blows me away.

Define "whack"

I'm still not sure I can believe it until I get my hands on one, and toss it in a vending machine and have it work.

I bury the cans in my backyard.

This just in: US Tax system being renamed to Whacky Cash Back Go-Go Money Trip for a year to help promote the new movie 'Spiderwoman'.

I can't wait to see the movie though. The Surfer looks kickass!

one of those would be a cool collectors item

Very cool :thumbsup

I think we will start seeing a lot more 'new' types of promoting movies, it started with the ATHF and supposedly Resident Evil 4 will release zombies in vegas to promote their flick. Now FF2.

Yeah, thats pretty messed up.

And so the domination of the world governments by the corporations continues...

Soon they will have their own armies, and blood will spill on the street...

And William Gibson's Cyberpunk society will be realized in the flesh.

:helpme

cool to have actual US currency promoting a comic book movie? umm okay

unless that currency can buy u comics and F4 merchandise...

I think we should replace all the ugly old presidents with superheroes. Maybe the world would start collecting US dollars again.

Aren't we talking about the same Franklin Mint that does those quarters with the flag in color on the back? It's a corny novelty and that's it...no real value

Amazing, i want that

It would be illegal to knowingly pass these as real money. So how exactly would they get them into circulation?

isnt that counterfitting?

Phew. Now that you put it in 36pt font, I totally get it now!

lol 45678

Considering people continue to post and believed it AFTER I had already corrected them on the facts, yes I found it necessary to have the huge font.

:thumbsup :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

If you guys do some research, you'll see many coins printed by Franklin Mint for over 40 years now have been approved as legal tender. If they are based on their metal value, then why wouldn't they be ??

The only one I know of that isn't approved is the Liberty Dollar, because it's 1 ounce of copper which is only worth about 25 cents and they try to have it as a $1 coin. So it's not legal tender but still counts as currency as over 10,000 US retailers state they accept it.

So those claiming the SS coin cannot be legal tender, do your research better :upsidedow

BTW new info says these will be 2005 California statehood commemorative quarters printed by the US Mint, and Franklin Mint will only specially color-enhance it.

Yes, thats the first thig I thought of..I guess verythings for sale, but we already knew that..pretty sad!

Bingo... Most people have no clue about who is really pulling the strings in this country...

People think the old saying "money makes the world go round" is just an old saying lol...

If you get it in the form of a gift card for amazon.com or one of the other places available there is no fee ;)

My dad used to work for the Franklin Mint and they minted currency but not for the US. That was back then - now they make Star Trek plates and crap

That's a great idea! Wonder if that old Marvel guy thought of that. What's his name who made up a lot of the heroes. He always seemed to have some gimmick going

The coins that the Franklin Mint puts out are NCLT's, and are not considered legal tender in the almost every country out there -- including the United States -- and are only "legal tender" in small countries in which they were 'originally' intended and printed for. The coins worth has absolutely nothing to do with it being accepted as legal tender in the US.

Stan Lee dummy, his name was even mentioned already in this thread but you probably don't read...

Welcome to the Machine

If the govrnment approves it as such, then it is legal tender. However in this case since it is being minted by the US Mint and only altered by Franklin Mint I'm sure it will be legal tender.

But really it's a moot point as do you think anyone who has one of these will try and spend it for 25 cents ? :winkwink:

Show me ONE US coin that is legal tender that the frankling Mint minted.

Please show me the announcement of this as legal tender?

http://www.usmint.gov/pressroom/

yea i dont know about this, it sounds cool but seriously im sure theres a better way to promote a movie through other things than quarters...

I Got One!!! I Got One!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pardon me for not knowing the name of the god of comic book collectors and thirty-year-olds who live in their parents' basement