The Big Maple Leaf. Photo: DPAPolice on Wednesday arrested two suspects over the theft of a museum’s 100-kilo coin, worth nearly €1 million, in March. In March, the "Big Maple Leaf" commemorative coin - issued by the Royal Canadian Mint in 2007 - was snatched from the Bode Museum on Berlin’s Museum Island. Police believe the thieves wanted to melt the coin down in order to make it into smaller portions of gold. The coin features a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, and the museum gave the face value of the coin at €920,000, though the market price of 100 kg of gold is around €3.7 million.

Source: The Local July 12, 2017 07:30 UTC