article_snippet.sent: A family was awarded the rights to 10 rare gold coins possibly worth $80 million or more on Friday after a US appeals court overturned a jury verdict.
article_snippet.sent: US Department of the Treasury officials argued that Joan Langbord and Joan Langbord sons cannot lawfully own the coins, which Joan Langbord said Joan Langbord found in a family bank deposit box in 2003.
article_snippet.sent: A family found the valuables in a bank deposit box for Joan Langbord father Israel Switt, a Philadelphia jeweler (left, in 1944).
article_snippet.sent: Government believed that Switt stole the coins from a mint in 1933 .
article_snippet.sent: Langbord's father, jeweler Israel Switt, had dealings with the US Mint in Philadelphia in the 1930s and was twice investigated over his coin holdings.
article_snippet.sent: However, the appeals court returned the coins to the Langbords because US officials had not responded within a 90-day limit to A family's seized-property claim, filed in about 2004.
article_snippet.sent: The family had taken the coins to the Secret Service in Philadelphia to have The family examined, Berke said.
article_snippet.sent: While prosecutors argued to jurors in 2011 that Switt must have stolen the coins with help from a Mint insider, Berke said Berke could have traded Berke scrap gold for the coins.
highlights_snippet.sent: Family had brought rare coins to Secret Service when Joan Langbord, in her mid-80s, and sons were taken .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Coins from Langbord's father Israel Switt had been in a lock box until 2003 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Government said Coins from Langbord's father Israel Switt stole Joan Langbord, in her mid-80s, and sons, though Coins from Langbord's father Israel Switt could have traded for Joan Langbord, in her mid-80s, and sons .