Joan Langbord was going through her late father’s possessions in 2003 when she and her sons found 10 1933 St. Gaudens Double Eagle $20 gold coins in a bank deposit box. Trusting the government, Langbord took the coins to the U.S. Mint to get them authenticated.
Claiming the coins were stolen from the Mint in 1933, the government seized them and locked them away in Fort Knox.
