In a case with intrigue stretching back to the first year of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s administration, a federal judge ruled that it is the government’s right to seize 10 exceedingly rare and likely ill-gotten coins.

The gold “double eagle” coins, none of which were ever circulated, were stolen from the Philadelphia Mint sometime shortly after they were cast in 1933, so they were rightly forfeited to the government 70 years later, a jury found last year.