It weighs 100 kilogrammes of the very purest gold, it's worth US$4 million, and it has been stolen. (EPA photo)BERLIN - A Canadian gold coin named "Big Maple Leaf" which bears the image of Queen Elizabeth II was stolen in the early hours of Monday morning from Berlin's Bode Museum. The coin is made out of pure gold, weighs about 100 kilos and has a face value of around $1 million, or 137.5 million baht. Given the high purity of the gold used in the coin, its material value is estimated to be $4 million. The Bode Museum has one of the world's largest coin collections with more than 540,000 items.

Source: Bangkok Post March 27, 2017 16:52 UTC