The Most Valuable Items Stolen In This Year

The Maori greenstone cleaver worth $38,000 (£29.5k)

A Māori mere pounamu (a type of cleaver made of greenstone) called Pokaiwhenua was stolen from its display case in New Zealand's Auckland War Memorial Museum this March. The thief, a 26-year-old man, was apprehended but the artefact remains lost. And it's not the only Māori weapon to have been stolen this year: in February Māori weapons were stolen from a Māori leader's collection in Waikato while he was on holiday.