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 ...

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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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 ...

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

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 ...

The popularity of this activity among British women has surged in recent years. What used to be seen as a somewhat quirky ...

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 ...

A father was encouraged by his children to take up his old hobby of metal detecting. On his first day using the new detector he dug up a medieval gold coin from the 13th century. The coin has sold at ...