From the Bode Museum in Berlin, a giant gold coin was stolen, which weighs 100 kg. The Canadian coin, which was nicknamed the "big maple leaf", is made of pure 24 carat gold.

The coin depicts the Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II, as well as it is written that the face value of the coin is $ 1 million. However, now the market value of the coin is much larger - about $ 4 million.

The coin was stolen about 3. 30 am local time. While until the end it is not clear how the thieves could deceive the security system and take out a heavy coin.

In this case, the police believe that the thieves entered the room through the window. On the railway tracks near the museum was found a staircase.

"Based on the information we now possess, we believe that the thief, or perhaps the thieves, broke a window in the back of the museum near the railway tracks," the official spokesman for the police, Winfried Wenzel, told Reuters. - Then they were able to penetrate the building and went to the exhibition of coins ".

According to a police spokesman, the coin was under a special bullet-proof glass.

The police did not disclose any details concerning the work of the museum security service or alarm system.

The coin was cast at the Royal Canadian Mint in 2007. Its thickness is 3 cm, and its diameter is 53 cm. On the one hand it depicts Queen Elizabeth II, and on the other - the symbol of Canada maple leaf.

In the Bode Museum there are more than 540 different coins, but, according to German media reports, only the "big maple leaf". This is reported by the BB.