The man was employed at the Museum of the Plains Indian on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana.

The art was stolen during transport from a locked truck.

One said they stole the work out of "naive and selfish desire" to use it to decorate for their apartment.

Local police said they had tried to remove the wall on which the piece is set.

To conduct the heist, the thieves cut off an entire city's internet and phone connection.

Their gallery, Belle et Belle, will be dissolved through the ruling.

Several manuscripts, taken between 2016 and 2019, were recently for sale at major international auction houses.

The silver quarter shekel is the fourth known coin of its kind.

In total, $139 million of art was stolen, reportedly from the widow of a Brazilian art dealer.

In April, an unidentified woman stole a Pieter Aertsen painting from a Hamburg museum.