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SWEDEN'S ROYAL COIN CABINET MISSING 1,200 OBJECTSAlan Luedeking forwarded this article from Sweden. Thanks! A person has been arrested in the theft of approximately 1,200 items from the Royal Coin Cabinet there. Here's an
excerpt in English from Google Translate. -Editor
The suspect was a former employee of the Royal Coin Cabinet in Stockholm's Old Town. At the Royal Coin Cabinet, which is responsible for national collections of notes and coins, the inventory showed a frightening result. We can see that it is in the order of about 1200 objects are away, especially coins. Value is about SEK 25 million, but it's estimates. We have done a great job and inventoried since 2013 says Eva Ramberg, director of the museum Royal Coin Cabinet. The majority of the items should have disappeared after the last inventory was taken in conjunction with the museum moved to the Old City in 1997. It's a disaster, it is sad and a huge loss. It's irreplaceable cultural values that have disappeared, says Eva Ramberg. This is sad news for the numismatic community. Hopefully in time many of the objects can be recovered, but what a mess in the meantime. -Editor
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