Gold coins said to be missing from Boston Public Library
The Boston Public Library president vowed to tighten security at the nation’s oldest public library, but that promise may have come too late: More pieces have been reported missing from the BPL’s collection.
A former BPL employee says gold coins are missing from the library’s Copley branch, according to The Boston Globe. The disappearance of two prints valued at more than $600,000 prompted an investigation by the Boston Police Department and the FBI.
That employee is now retired but has still been volunteering there, according to the Globe. He emailed administrators last Friday that the gold coins, originally placed in the cornerstone of the main branch’s McKim Building, were missing.
“Based on his limited information, it is our estimation that these items went missing several decades ago,’’ spokeswoman Melina Schuler told the Globe.
The library is taking this seriously, she said, and have notified the BPD.
Read the full Globe story here.
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