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ramriot t1_isxx7op wrote

We also rarely talk about the Big Maple Leaf, an annoying piece of fiddling small change consisting of a coin 20 inches diameter containing 100Kg of 5 nines pure gold. Six of these were minted & the current owners are Queen Elizabeth II; Oro Direct, a Spanish gold trading company; Boris Fuchsmann and two anonymous individuals in Dubai.

A coin owned by Boris Fuchsmann, which had been on loan for public display in the Münzkabinett of Berlin's Bode Museum since 2010, was stolen on March 27, 2017. It has not been recovered, and is believed to have been melted down.

The theft was performed by someone who took the simple expediency of visiting during the day & unlocking a nearby window then coming back at night with a wheelbarrow.

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_Bl4ze t1_isy7v96 wrote

>the current owners are Queen Elizabeth II

Who's gonna tell him?

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ramriot t1_isydb1y wrote

I think he knows, though I would not put it past him to stub his toe on that weird doorstop & wonder where mumsey got it from.

I wonder what the inheritance tax on something like that is & does it count as a fungible asset.

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p0u1337 t1_isy3ae9 wrote

These coins were 100kg, not 1000.

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