Gold coin in Guinness Book of Records worth as much as $4.5M stolen from a German Museum


A massive gold coin worth millions of dollars, which is listed in the Guinness Book of Records for its purity of 999.99/1000 gold vanished from a museum in the middle of the night, police in Germany announced Monday, saying a group of thieves stole the 221-pound currency before police could arrive, according to the Bode Museum in Berlin, which housed the coin.

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