Appeal after valuable coins stolen in Portsmouth

Do you recognise these coins? Have you been offered them for sale?

The owner of the coins, an 80-year-old man, had been trying to sell them online, and on May 23 a man attended his house on Ecton Lane, Portsmouth, to view them. While the owner turned his back to get some more coins from the safe, the man ran out of the address taking around ten coins with him.

The following month the owner was contacted online by someone under a different profile name and they arranged to meet in a pub for him to view some of the coins on June 26. When the man didn’t attend the pub, the owner went home to find that his home had been burgled and the safe containing the remainder of the coins had been stolen.

Officers would like to speak to anyone who may have seen these coins for sale in the area. If you think you can help, please contact us as soon as possible online or on 101 quoting 44240269862.

Two men, aged 22 and 25, both from Swanmore, have been arrested on suspicion of burglary and theft and have been bailed until October 11 and 13.