Family Fights United States Mint over Rare Coins
Roy Langbord and his family made an astonishing discovery in an old safe-deposit box. Roys mother had him check the old and long-neglected box a few years ago and what he found was great indeed.
Inside the box, opened in 2003, Roy found an incredibly rare coin collection. There were 10 $20 gold coins, minted in 1933, with a bald eagle on one side and Lady Liberty on the face side. The pieces were never officially released by the Mint and could potentially be worth millions.
New coin collectors and seasoned coin collectors alike know that the rarer the coin the more it is worth. Only a few of this specific coin had ever made it out of Federal Reserve vaults and only one has ever been sold publicly for the price of $7.6 million.
The Langbord family took the coins to the United States Mint to have them authenticated but were surprised when the Mint returned saying that the coins were genuine and that they were going to keep them. The government claims that the coins are government property and were stolen from the Mint in the 1930s by Mr. Langbord’s grandfather. Langbord’s grandfather, a Philadelphia jewelry dealer named Israel Switt, died in 1990. The Langbrd’s insist that Switt acquired the coins legitimately, more than likely through a gold-for-gold exchange program that was used by the Mint in those days.
The family argues that they received the coins legitimately and recently won an important suit against the Mint. A United States District Court judge has decided that the Mint must prove that the coins were in fact stolen or give them back to the Langbord family.
The chances of the Mint proving that the coins were stolen is likely not going to happen, nobody can prove irrefutably what happened nearly 80 years ago. The coins may have been stolen nearly 80 years ago but they surely were not taken by the people who hold them now.
Mr. Fenton, the coin dealer who sold the Farouk double eagle, said that if the coins were sold they should be sold slowly and in a good market they could sell for anywhere in between $4 million and $6 million.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)Bobby Robson Dies
UK football legend Bobby Robson has died. The 76-year-old football manager has lost his fight with cancer. He played for Fulham and West Brom during the 1950s and 1960s, and later went on to manage Fulham, Ipswich, PSV, Sporting Lisbon, Porto, Barcelona and the club he supported as a boy, Newcastle.
The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation was launched in March 2008. The foundation has raised more than £1.3 million to fight cancer.
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Filed under News | Comment (0)Michael Jackson Lovechild in DNA Dilemma
Metro Breaking News – A ‘secret’ lovechild of Michael Jackson is to undergo DNA testing to prove that he is indeed the lost lovechild of the iconic pop star.
Norwegian Omer Bhatti is alledged to be the fourth child of the superstar born out of an alleged on night stand in 1984.
Speculation that the 25-year-old is Jacko’s fourth child was raised after Jackson dancer Bhatti sat on the front row of the singer’s memorial in LA along with the other Jackson siblings. Bhatti is a would be hip-hop star, who performs under the name of O-Bee.
Curry Bribes Stop Truancy
UK News – A school has started a new scheme to keep kids from skipping school by bribing their parents with Curry. Masala is one of England’s national foods proving to be a highly desired reward for parents whose kids have an attendance rate of 95 per cent or better.
The scheme has so far proved successful with truancy rates cut by more than half since its launch.
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