In a search that began more than 70 years ago and includes a legal battle lasting a decade, the federal government has won its bid to reclaim 10 rare coins that disappeared from the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia in the early part of the last century.
After briefly winning back rights to the 10 Double Eagle gold coins under a 2015 ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, members of the Langbord family were dealt another blow when an en banc panel of the court instead agreed with federal jury’s verdict that the coins were always property of the government and should be returned.
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