The 'Big Maple Leaf' coin in the Bode Museum in Berlin.
(Marcel Mettelsiefen/dpa via AP)
Posted on 07/12/2017 8:50:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Heavily-armed masked police arrested the suspects, one wearing a hood over his head, in Berlin's Neukoelln neighborhood. Another nine people are being questioned in the case. All suspects are related to one another and aged between 18 and 20, police said.
The raids of 13 different buildings lasted several hours, but the gold coin was not recovered.
"We assume that the coin was partially or completely sold," Carsten Pfohl of the Berlin state criminal office told reporters at a press conference. He added that police also confiscated clothes and cars to comb for traces of gold.
The Canadian "Big Maple Leaf" coin, worth several million euros (dollars), was stolen from the Bode museum in March.
Police say the three-centimeter (1.2-inch) thick gold 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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Ping.
I’m guessing Chechins.
Any thieves who did not instantly chop up & melt this coin would be idiots. Perhaps I repeat myself. As far as I know, it’s unique, or, there are only 1-2-3 of them.
I suspect it would assay OK. Being .9999 and all, LOL.
“Yeah. We’ll guard it. Security measures, right. Cameras. Bells. The works. Nuddin’ to worry about.”
Possible that.
Dr. Evil: “A million dollars? Really? Years ago, people told me over and over a million dollars is nothing. Seriously, did I miss something here???”
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