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Sen. Teresa Fedor and Rep. Peter Ujvagi cited a story in Sunday’s Blade that the number of missing rare coins purchased with state money controlled by Mr. Noe had increased by 119 coins to a total of 121.
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An accounting firm hired to check the state’s rare-coin inventory found last year that not only were the coins missing, but they may have been stolen by a Colorado coin dealer.

The 119 coins are in addition to two coins worth roughly $300,000 owned by the state that were lost in the mail in 2003.
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[T]wo Democratic state senators yesterday asked Attorney General Jim Petro, a Republican, to file a lawsuit on behalf of the bureau and seek a receivership to “protect the state’s investment.”

The letter from Sens. Marc Dann of suburban Youngstown and Eric Fingerhut of Cleveland said: “Each day seems to bring new and alarming reports about Ohio’s $50 million investment in rare coins.

With each new allegation it appears increasingly likely the state’s investment may not be worth as much as previously believed.”


Amazing, yet only appears in the local news.