The gold coin, that was stolen from the Bode Museum in Berlin, was featured in Guinness Book of Records for its ‘unmatched’ degree of purity. Photo: APBerlin: 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 kilogrammes and has a face value of around $1 million. The coin, with a diameter of 53 centimetres and 3 centimetres thick, was loaned to the Bode Museum in December 2010. “Neither I nor the Bode Museum can go into detail regarding personnel inside the building, the alarm system or security installations.” The Bode Museum has one of the world’s largest coin collections with more than 540,000 items.Reuters

Source: Mint March 27, 2017 16:18 UTC