
Some coin collectors challenge U.S. regulations
By Maria Glod The Washington Post WASHINGTON—They’re worth only about $275, but 23 bronze coins seized by the federal government at Baltimore-Washington International Marshall Airport last year might be the most important chunk of change for numismatists in years. These well-worn coins, struck more than a thousand years ago in Cyprus and China, are at the center of a dispute over U.S. rules that …