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Massive gold coin worth millions stolen from German museum
APnews ^
| 3-27-17
| DAVID RISING
Posted on 03/27/2017 3:20:40 PM PDT by dynachrome
Thieves broke into the German capital's Bode Museum before dawn Monday and made off with a massive 100-kilogram (221-pound) gold coin worth millions of dollars, police said.
Police spokesman Stefen Petersen said thieves apparently entered through a window about 3:30 a.m. Monday, broke into a cabinet where the "Big Maple Leaf" coin was kept, and escaped with it before police arrived.
A ladder was found by nearby railway tracks.
The three-centimeter (1.18-inch) thick coin, with a diameter of 53 centimeters (20.9 inches), has a face value of 1 million Canadian dollars ($750,000). By weight alone, however, it would be worth almost $4.5 million at market prices.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coin; gold; theft
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Wow
To: dynachrome
“The museum says the coin is in the Guinness Book of Records for its purity of 999.99/1000 gold. It has a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II on one side and maple leaves on the other.”
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:21:49 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:22:26 PM PDT
by
stephenjohnbanker
(My Batting Average( 1,000) since Nov 2014 (GOPe is that easy to read))
To: dynachrome
Imagine the pocket they had to have on their pants!!!
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:22:27 PM PDT
by
MeganC
(Democrat by birth, Republican by default, conservative by principle.)
To: dynachrome
Gee, I wonder if they’ll melt it down.
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:22:34 PM PDT
by
gundog
(Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
To: dynachrome
That story scared me so much that I had to check my box of coins in my drawer. $4,500,005.25 just like I thought.
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:24:09 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
To: dynachrome
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:27:03 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
To: dynachrome
Let’s see.....
How many ounces are there in a pound?.......
Ummmmm.....a lot I’ll bet.
Then we multiply that by the price of gold which is.....a lot I’ll bet.
All together.....that is probably a lot of money.
Be on the lookout for some guy trying to buy Hungary with gold.
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:29:06 PM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: dynachrome
$4.5 mil for a coin? A mere bag of shells...
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:29:31 PM PDT
by
C210N
To: dynachrome
Useless. How could you flip that easily?
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:30:25 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
To: gundog
They’ll have, or it was stolen on an order from a collector. There’s no other way that they can get any money from the theft.
To: dynachrome
You know they will make a movie about this heist. Could well be “refugees”.
To: DoughtyOne
If it was stolen, or order from a collector, who just wants to own it....hidden away.
To: dynachrome
How much you wanna bet it was an inside job?
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:32:10 PM PDT
by
PLMerite
(Lord, let me die fighting lions. Amen)
To: dynachrome
The three-centimeter (1.18-inch) thick coin, with a diameter of 53 centimeters (20.9 inches)...
Basically a solid gold manhole cover.
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:32:58 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: nopardons
Wonder where Jerry Brown was?
Inquiring minds want to know!
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:33:12 PM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
To: DoughtyOne
To: C210N
A few years back there was serious talk of minting a few $1T coins to resolve the national debt.
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:34:29 PM PDT
by
ctdonath2
(Understand the Left: "The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the Revolution.")
To: dynachrome
This article makes no sense.
220 lbs x 16 ounces x $1,250 per ounce = $4.0 million. Why does it say $750k? I didn’t think a troy ounce made that much of a difference
To: SpaceBar
Yup. Probably being melted into bars as we speak.
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posted on
03/27/2017 3:36:00 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(When an empire dies, you are left with vast monuments in front of which peasants squat to defecate)
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