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U.S. Disputes Heirs' Claim to Rare Coins

NPR | By Joel Rose
Published August 24, 2005 at 10:00 PM MDT

The discovery of 10 "Double Eagle" coins has touched off a battle for ownership between the jeweler who found the coins in her father's antique-jewelry shop and the U.S. Mint.

The Double Eagles disappeared from the mint in the 1930s. They are among the most valuable coins in the world. Joel Rose of member station WHYY reports.

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Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. As the network’s transportation correspondent since 2023, Rose’s reporting focuses on roadway and pedestrian safety, an air travel system under stress and how emerging technologies are changing the ways we get around.