Celtic gold coins worth ‘several million euros’ stolen from German museum

Third-century coins taken in heist involving cut off' phone and internet connections in Manching, Bavaria

Thieves have stolen a hoard of Celtic coins worth several million euros from a German museum after apparently disrupting local telephone and internet connections.

Employees at the museum in Manching discovered on Tuesday that a showcase was broken" and the collection of 450 coins had been stolen, local police told AFP.