The man has always denied crime. His lawyer Ingrid Elovsson has previously said that her client has been given the coins it is about legally through inheritance, purchases and exchanges.

The Royal Coin Cabinet has reported 1,500 missing items to the police. The target was for a smaller number of objects.

- We have reported 1,500 items to the police, since then the prosecutor has proceeded with a smaller material. That is the material he has been able to lead in evidence, said Cecilia Von Heijne, head of the Royal Coin Cabinet, earlier in SVT's Morning Study.

Now the court has said its and the accused man is released.

Museum manager convicted of theft earlier

This is not the first time an employee of the coin cabinet has been in a legal process. In 2017, a former boss was sentenced to three years in prison for theft. The former museum manager was charged with stealing and selling 42 items from the Coin Cabinet and Gothenburg City Museum to a coin dealer in Stockholm, and the district court considered it proved he had stolen 35 of the items.

- I stole things that I thought were good. Valuable, sought after. It happened that I took several things at the same time, the former museum director said in court.

The coinage becomes a television series

This spring, the millionth cup on the coin cabinet is depicted in a new documentary series on SVT. The police have called the criminal investigation into the largest in the history of Swedish cultural heritage and the documentary filmmaker Åsa Blanck has followed this around the Royal Coin Cabinet for almost five years.

- On the one hand, it is one of the biggest crimes against our national taxes. But for me it is also a story of a world I did not know existed: older men, many medals, arranging. It's a pretty closed world, almost like a secret brotherhood. But that's where we got to come in, she told the Culture News earlier.