Hey there. Welcome to another episode of The Shocking Details. I am Joe, joined as always by Vincent Caldoney.

All right. And so this week, this marks the first installment of our heistapalooza, and we're going to talk about one of my

favorite heist stories. It's a great bank heist, although it actually was not a heist of a bank.

It was actually of a mint.

Which is cool. You don't hear about that as much.

No, it doesn't happen very much. I mean, a mint, for Christ's sakes, that's a really hard target compared to even a bank, right? Yeah. I mean, so, yeah. I mean, if you've got your house all locked up,

your windows and your doors are all locked, your security alarm is armed, you would say what?

I got the place locked down like Fort Knox. Exactly. That's a mint. Yeah, exactly. That's what

we're talking about here. It's built to keep people out. Guilt to keep the narrative wells out. Not everybody, but the nerdy wells. And this meant the question

that we're talking about is the Perth Mint, which of course is in the city of Perth in Western Australia.

It's on the West Australian coast. The Perth Mint opened in 1890 and is a branch of the Royal Mint of Britain, which is

interesting. Yeah. It was built because some big gold deposits had been discovered in

Western Australia in the late 19th century, and all the gold miners needed a place to sell their

gold, and they needed to control the rates for the gold probably too. That's why you, the secondary

purpose of a mint is to make sure that there isn't gouging and things like that going on,

especially when you have a gold rush. And that's also where they refine the gold in minted it

into coins. Yeah, which people still spent back in those days. And speaking of gold coins, as an aside,

here's a little Perthman

trivia for you. In 2011, the Perth Mint created the world's largest and most valuable gold

coin. I've seen pictures of this thing. It's 31 inches across, 4.7 inches thick, weighs over a ton.

In metric terms, it's 80 centimeters across, 12 centimeters thick, and weighs 1,012 kilos.

I would like to have this coin. Yeah, there's even a picture of it on the Mint's webpage. It's on this

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