The official site for Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer has added a Search 4 $ilver contest page for the limited-edition Silver Surfer quarters issued by The Franklin Mint.
The commemorative U.S. quarters are specially color-enhanced by The Franklin Mint for Twentieth Century Fox, who will launched their contest by sending a specially-outfitted fleet of silver armored trucks out to deliver 40,000 coins to cities all across America, in time for Memorial Day weekend.
Anyone who finds one of these quarters can go to the Search 4 $ilver contest site to enter for a chance to win several prizes (see official site for more info). In addition, every fan is invited to visit the film’s official site daily until June 12th to flip a “virtual coin” for a chance to win instant prizes.
Also, NBC has put up a mini-site for the movie, with downloads and exclusive clips, some of which were seen during last night’s episode of Heroes. After the show’s ending, a long clip featuring The Silver Surfer interacting with Sue Storm was played, followed by a prompt to visit NBC’s Web site for more exclusive content.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer hits theaters June 15, 2007.
Its a sad day when the Mint Sells out. Coins are about a country’s economic pride. Whats Next Web sites on $ bills, or how about we just pay with bill-boards.
As cool as the Silver surfer is, A coin should stay a coin and not become a marketing ploy.
Comment by Crashborghesan — May 23, 2007 @ 10:50 am
This is a sad, sad day in this nation’s history.
Comment by Sad Man — May 23, 2007 @ 11:03 am
lol, this is the Franklin mint which is a private mint. These are not being issued by “the Mint” of the US. This is the same mint that paints state quarters and sells them for 20 times what they are worth. This has nothing to do with the Government or “US economic pride”.
Comment by Ryan — May 23, 2007 @ 11:08 am
It’s a sad day when the Mint sells out?
This isn’t the U.S. Mint who prints money under the authority of the Federal Treasury. This is the Franklin Mint. They don’t print money and mint coins, they sell little knick-knacks that your grandma has in her china cabinet.
Comment by Erik — May 23, 2007 @ 11:08 am
You guy crack me up…”sad day in this nations history” indeed! lol
Comment by Ryan — May 23, 2007 @ 11:10 am
The Franklin Mint is private mint and is not affiliated with the U.S. Mint. So the nation didn’t sell out! Get your facts straight. The US Mint creates official U.S. Coins. The Franklin Mint took those coins and added the “color enhancement” to the coins.
Comment by Seabee — May 23, 2007 @ 11:11 am
It’s nice to see that there are a few educated people in this world. Thanks for posting Seabee and Erik. Franklin mint = Junk not US coinage.
Comment by Ryan — May 23, 2007 @ 11:18 am
I guess three of us were posting at the same time.
Comment by Seabee — May 23, 2007 @ 11:23 am
yes the Franklin mint is also a good place to get mini-statues of Marilyn Monroe, Pewter angels riding Harley’s figurines, and cheaply painted coins. A sad day indeed.
Comment by Ryan — May 23, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
I don’t understand how this is legal. It would seem to me that this would fall under “defacing public/government property”.
Comment by Atkuku — May 23, 2007 @ 2:52 pm
If they are just painting on the coins, they are not defacing and its perfectly legal.
If they are grinding down the coins backs to make a flat surface to place the painting, or otherwise removing metal or altering the weight of the coin, then that would not be permitted.
I’m pretty sure the Franklin Mint knows what they are doing regarding the law. They actually do mint coinage for some other small countries too, btw.
eb
Comment by eb — May 23, 2007 @ 10:29 pm
The sad part was that someone didn’t know the difference.
Comment by Motorcycle Guy — May 25, 2007 @ 10:57 am
Wtf?
WTF??
WTF IN HELL?
Comment by A retard — May 25, 2007 @ 3:19 pm
painting money is not defacing government property.The person who has the money in there possession owns the money and has the right to do whatever they want to with it,and the government can’t say anything to you.As long as you are not attempting to counterfit it,say by trying to change a Five dollar bill to a fifty dollar bill or something stupid like that
Comment by rayne26 — May 26, 2007 @ 4:53 pm
This is hilarious and depressing at the same time.
20th Century Fox has gone too far. This is more shameless than Santa dollars. Idiocracy is real!
Comment by schtink — May 27, 2007 @ 3:23 pm
It’s interesting many are against the coin but don’t seem to think pasting the American flag on any sort of advertising is a problem.
It is “technically” illegal to do this as stated by the U.S. Mint, “It is illegal to turn a coin into an advertising vehicle, and violators can face a fine.”
I just hope I get one. The Silver Surfer is cool!
Comment by WeebleWobble — May 31, 2007 @ 2:20 pm