Another man has been charged with stealing tens of thousands of limited edition coins minted in honour of hit children’s TV show Bluey.
A second suspected bandit has been charged with stealing coins minted to celebrate beloved Australian cartoon Bluey.
The hit children’s TV show received its third Silver Logie on Sunday, but its global success had already been marked with limited edition gold coins from the Australian Mint.
The dollar coins were already being sold online for around $10 each, but were not expected to go into circulation until September.
In July, it was reported that a 500-kilogram pallet containing 63,000 unissued coins was stolen from a secure storage facility.
Detectives from the Bandit raiding party (the same name as the father of the blue sheepdog featured on the show) charged a second man Tuesday for his alleged involvement in the robbery.
The man was arrested at a home in Sydney’s southwest and will face Fairfield Local Court on three counts of aggravated trespass to commit an indictable offence.
A 47-year-old man is due back in court in October on the same charges after being arrested in early August, with police alleging he removed the palette from a safe place before the robbery.
A second man has been arrested and charged with three counts of aggravated burglary to commit a felony (pictured)
In July it was reported that 63,000 of the unissued coins (pictured) were stolen from a secure vault and many of them were sold online.
The stolen coins differ from a set of three Bluey-themed colored coins that the Mint offered to collectors in June.
Those 90,000 coins, which have a face value of $1, are selling online for $20.
An unlucky collector had 189 stolen gold coins confiscated after purchasing them for about $1.50 each.
They have not been charged.
Bluey has become a global phenomenon after first airing in Australia on ABC in 2018.
Follows the adventures of a young dog and her family living in the suburbs of Brisbane.
