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German Gold Heist 

German police have launched an international hunt for thieves who stole $1.65M worth of ancient gold coins from a museum—within nine minutes and without triggering any alarms. The stolen loot consisted of 483 Celtic coins, dating back to 100 BCE, and a lump of unworked gold that were all discovered during an archaeological dig in 1999 near the present-day town of Manching in the German state of Bavaria. 

Officials said cables at a telecommunications hub had been cut less than a mile from the Celtic and Roman Museum in Manching at 1:17 am Tuesday. The museum's security systems showed a door in the museum open at 1:26 am and the thieves leaving at 1:35 am. 

The theft has been likened to two other heists in Germany in recent years, one in 2017 in which a 220-pound Canadian gold coin was stolen from a Berlin museum and another in 2019 in which 18th-century jewels were taken from a Dresden museum. 

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