Featured Thieves blow open museum door.

I personally find the smaller regional museums delightful, and real highlights of travel-some also hold true world treasures.Security levels probably vary greatly in these local gems though.
The suspects aren't what what you'd call genius level international art thieves-think stoned out thugs.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...ancient-golden-helmet-from-romania-180985915/

 

As far as I know they are members of a Dutch illegal biker gang who worked for a Romanian gangster. Which probably means the crown and bracelets are still intact, because he will use them in return for a lighter sentence or some other type of exchange.

 

I'm hoping that's the case-amazing artifacts.

 

He's probably going to use the threat of melting them down into ingots.

 

Good deduction Ruth-remember Auric Goldfinger ? He was going to turn the US Gold Depository radioactive.

 

ahh , the ol' days of getting away with calling Bond girls , sexy slut names !!!!!
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That will never work. They know he would never do that because the pieces are worth much more as Rumania's national treasure than as mere ingots.

 

A lot easier to sell as scrap gold though unfortunately with no trail of evidence back to them. With the price of gold as it is, I know what I'd do.

 

They won't be interested in selling it, art and antiquities like these are stolen for leverage or ransom, not for scrap value. It happens regularly.
Besides, if a Romanian gangster wants gold, they know much easier ways to get it.

 

Maybe not to actually do it, but to threaten it if certain conditions aren't met. "Release Joe Sixpack Gangster or the crown is ingots!" It's worth a pile but it's too famous to sell as it is, but as gold bars that problem goes away. Odds are the goverment will cave instead of taking the risk; gangsters aren't notorious for having soft hearts or appreciation for heritage.