Thieves took the ‘Big Maple Leaf’ coin, with the Queen’s head on, from the Bode Museum, in Berlin, Germany, earlier today.
Police said the suspects entered the institute through a window at
around 3:30 am and broke into the bullet-proof glass cabinet where it
was stored.
If it was accepted in shops, you could spend £1 million dollars with it.
However, in terms of its weight in gold, the 1.18-inch thick coin is
worth much more – around $4.6 million (£3.6m) in the open market.
The currency has a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on one side and some maple leaves on the other.
The Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany
Police spokesman Stefen Petersen said there was probably more than one thief because the coin weighed so much.
But he would not confirm if detectives had received CCTV footage of the theft.
Another spokesman for the police, Winfrid Wenzel, added: ‘Based on
the information we have so far we believe that the thief, maybe thieves,
broke open a window in the back of the museum next to the railway
tracks.
‘They then managed to enter the building and went to the coin exhibition.
‘The coin was secured with bullet-proof glass inside the building. That much I can say.’
It was stored behind bullet proof glass
The rare coin, which was produced by Royal Canadian Mint in 2007, has been on display at Bode Museum for seven years.
It set a Guinness World Record for its purity of 999.99/1000 gold.
Specialist crime detectives are investigating the incident.
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