Wayne Ryan’s jaw dropped when he stumbled across an 1885 gold sovereign coin featuring Queen Victoria during a routine metal detecting search in his local area on Saturday night. Heading up the Virgin ...

A County Durham metal detectorist has uncovered a rare medieval silver coin now confirmed as a nationally important.

EMBDEN, Maine (AP) — A man with a metal detector has found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of soil outside a church in Maine. Shane Houston, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was on a ...

NEW YORK — A man using a metal detector discovered a centuries-old Dutch coin on the southern coast of Poland earlier this week, museum officials announced. The coin, a golden ducat, is from the ...

Thanks to metal detectorists, there's been a record-breaking number of archeological finds and treasure discoveries in ...

The metal detecting outing turned into a competition for the oldest coin. An abandoned school provided the perfect testing ground. Each signal raised the stakes. History decided the winner.

Rare coins can go for hundreds of pounds, if not more. Certain designs are worth more than others, while some could sell for double its face value. Now a group of people managed to find a huge stash ...

Themoney the teenagers made for the coins was split with the landowners of wherethe coins were found (Pictures: PA) A pair of metal-detecting teenagers separately dug up historic coins and both made ...

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A lucky treasure hunter has discovered a £23,000 hoard of silver coins with a metal detector he won in a raffle. Novice Mickey Richardson had only been using the metal detector for three months when ...