The Globe and Mail reports in its Wednesday edition that a world-renowned Berlin museum is reeling from a brazen theft Monday of a 100-kilogram gold coin made by the Royal Canadian Mint, the biggest heist from a museum in the country since the Second World War. In a Globe special, Austin Davis and Petrick Costello write that the 2007 coin, nominally valued at $1-million, is worth closer to $5-million given the current price of gold. Curators say the theft delivered a crippling blow to the Bode Museum's reputation for preserving ancient and contemporary treasures for the enjoyment of future generations. "It's an absolute catastrophe for the museum, an absolute catastrophe for us all," said Bernhard Weisser, the director of the Bode Museum's numismatic collection. The coin was dubbed the "Big Maple Leaf." Museum directors say the heist is not comparable with any other Berlin has seen in the postwar era. "In order to find a similar scenario, you'd have to look back to historical times, to 1718," Mr. Weisser said. The Big Maple Leaf came to the Bode Museum in 2010 when it was lent to the museum's coin collection, one of the largest in the world with more than 540,000 items.