A-Mark, Inc. v. United States Secret Service Department of the Treasury

This appeal has been taken from an order dismissing the action for lack of subject-matter jurisdiction.

Appellant seeks recovery from the United States under the Tort Claims Act for negligent damage to a rare silver dollar entrusted by appellant to Treasury officials in May, 1971, for authentication as to its genuineness. Appellant alleged that the coin, when given to the government officers was numismatically rated as “brilliant, uncirculated and semi-prooflike”; that while in the possession of the government it was severely damaged, resulting in a loss of value in the sum of $29,000.

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