Alex Cooper will host a specialty coin auction through April 3, featuring several rare coins. The Towson auction house will feature coins from China and the United States in gold, platinum and silver as well as paper currency. Most of the ...

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Five years is less than a blink of an eye for two dozen ancient coins from China and Cyprus currently in the custody of federal customs officials in Baltimore. But federal prosecutors believe a half-decade is more than enough time for a legal battle over the coins waged by a collectors’ group that initially tried to import them.

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WASHINGTON — American consumers have shown about as much appetite for the $1 coin as kids do their spinach. They may not know what’s best for them either. Congressional auditors say doing away with dollar bills entirely and replacing them ...

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The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined last week to engage in a “searching review” of the way the United States government restricts the importation of cultural items.

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Baltimore police have arrested a suspect in four robberies in which the victims were Craigslist users looking to buy coins, jewelry and dirt bikes. A police spokesman says investigators found 26-year-old David Brown on Friday as he used a public ...

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HAGERSTOWN — Dozens of drivers stopped to grab fistfuls of money after thousands of dollars spilled from an armored truck along a Maryland highway Friday and created what one motorist called one big “snow globe of cash.” Attorney Heather Kelly ...

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Buried beneath a pile of tax increases and spending cuts in Gov. Martin O’Malley’s proposed budget that are already attracting lightning bolts from all sides is a small but important victory for Maryland taxpayers — if the General Assembly has ...

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Two Metro workers have been charged with stealing thousands of dollars in coins from fare machines and using the proceeds to buy massive quantities of instant lottery tickets. Federal prosecutors alleged Thursday that 58-year-old Horace McDade, of ...

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