Suitcase full of coins worth 8 million crowns, stolen from French collector, found by D8 motorway

Road workers found an abandoned suitcase near the D8 motorway and reported it to police several days later. Inside were more than 400 rare coins worth roughly 8 million crowns in total.

According to Prague police spokesman Richard Hrdina, the coins are of criminal origin — they had been stolen. The victim was a French collector who came to Prague’s Letňany district in early September for a collectors’ fair.

Police say two unknown men broke into the trunk of his car and stole the suitcase full of coins, then fled in a vehicle with Polish license plates. It is not yet clear how the suitcase ended up abandoned near the D8.

Around Prague, based on reporting by novinky.cz