Story about lost colonized planet sent into orbit around "free" star

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I'm trying to remember the name of a book I read, here are some details:

Main character is some sort of detective/investigator (I think)
Sci-fi, takes place in distant future. Oldest known relic is an american coin (from 2006 I think)
Hired to track down whether or not a cup is authentic from a lost ship
They end up finding the ship, but not the planet that it was sent to colonize.
They are bringing back a bunch of relics from the ship when they decided to stay over in the space station for a bite to eat. The shuttle carrying the relics is destroyed (they were supposed to be on it but weren't).
They end up following the clues and finding the lost colonized planet which is orbiting a star which is on some sort of crazy orbit through the galaxy which is why no one was able to find it before.

I can't tell from the question, but do you mean "lost colonized plant"? Or planet? The latter seems more likely, but before I edited I thought...it would be an interesting story too if it were a plant... — NominSim, Jul 6, 2012 at 15:11
Thanks, fixed it. A lost colonized plant? Thats been done before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whoville. — Peter, Jul 6, 2012 at 15:21
Possible duplicate of Story identification - Fabled spaceship wreck discovery leads to planet full of descendants — Blackwood, Jan 12, 2018 at 18:07

Mike Scott · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-06 16:28:17Z

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I'm pretty sure that's Seeker by Jack McDevitt, the third in his "Alex Benedict" series.

answered Jul 6, 2012 at 16:28

Mike Scott

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