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SHARE Homes and jewellery shops have been raided by German police hunting a massive gold coin that police suspect was stolen by the same crime family which carried out a spectacular heist in Dresden. The Canadian gold coin, valued at $4.45 million and weighing 100kg, was stolen from Berlin’s Bode Museum in 2017. Police believe it has been melted down and used to make fake coins that the Remmo family can then sell as collectibles in jewellery shops owned by associates. They suspect some fake coins are already in circulation. The same group are prime suspects in the Green Vault museum heist, ...

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Police raided German jewellers with links to the hip-hop scene yesterday amid fears a rare 220lb gold coin which was stolen from a museum could have been processed into medallions for rappers. The 'Big Maple Leaf', considered the second largest coin in the world and worth £3.3million, has not been found since it vanished from the Bode Museum, Berlin, in 2017.  Homes and shops suspected of being connected to the theft were raided by police on Wednesday morning. One of the suspicious jewellers has links to the rap industry which has lead detectives to their new line of inquiry, Bild reports.

German police raid jewelry shops, homes in search for 100-kg Canadian gold coin Police in Berlin raided homes and jewelry shops on Wednesday as part of their investigation into the theft of a Canadian gold coin worth millions of dollars. Police believe it may have been melted down and forged into smaller collector coins. Social Sharing The Associated Press · Posted: Dec 16, 2020 1:19 PM ET | Last Updated: December 17, 2020 The 100-kilogram 'Big Maple Leaf' coin has a diameter of 53 centimetres and a face value of $1 million Cdn. By weight alone, however, it would be worth roughly $5.8 mill...

Possible break in theft of Canadian gold coin in Germany by David Rising, The Associated Press Posted Dec 16, 2020 9:41 am EDT Last Updated Dec 16, 2020 at 9:44 am EDT FILE -- In this Dec. 8, 2010 photo a 100-kilogram (221-pound) Canadian gold coin is displayed at the Bode Museum in Berlin, Germany. Berlin police raided a series of homes and jewelry shops on suspicion they could be connected to the gold coin that was stolen from a museum in the German capital in 2017. (Marcel Mettelsiefen/dpa via AP, file) Berlin police raided homes and jewelry shops Wednesday on suspicion they could be conne...