Man smuggled half a tonne of $2 coins out of the Royal Australian Mint in his boots

William Grzeskowiac, 48, of Monash, pleaded guilty in the Magistrates Court to dishonestly appropriating the money between April 2005 and February this year.

The court heard Grzeskowiac carried more than 77,000 coins worth $155,000 out of the Mint over 10 months, avoiding detection by the facility's inadequate security system.