Armed robbers managed to pull off an extremely tricky heist in which they stole a substantial amount of commemorative gold coins equivalent of 50 million Mexican pesos ($2.5 million) from Mexico’s mint.
Two male thugs threatened the security guards responsible for the overall protection at one of the many branches of Casa de Moneda, a mint located in Mexico, and after that, the thieves managed to grab hold of over 1,500 expensive gold coins from a vault in the mint, as per police officials.
According to reports by several Mexican media outlets, the branch of Casa de Moneda from where these gold coins were looted, also witnessed a different robbery last year when renovations were going on. In the latest act of theft, two criminals, one of whom was carrying a firearm, barged into the mint on the morning of August 6. After entering the mint, the criminals had somehow overcome the guards before disarming them and looting the open vault.
However, before the police forces could arrive on the scene of the heist, the gang of robbers escaped quickly from the crime locality on their motorcycles. No individual was wounded while the felony was in progress. The gold coins that were seized are known as centenarios, and were minted for the first time in 1921 to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Mexico’s independence from Spain.
A famous Spanish daily newspaper La Vanguardia reports that most investigators involved in this case suspect few of the mint’s employees as having assisted the robbers in putting together the entire plan of this raid.
The gold coins, hunt for which is in full swing, holds up quite a bit of a striking design, that includes the city of Mexico’s Angel of Independence monument on one side and on the other side, it incorporates the city’s coat of arms. In 1931, the production of these gold coins was suspended entirely; however, due to the rapidly increasing demand in the market, the minting of these gold coins resumed in 1943.
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