Talk about the find of a lifetime. A metal detector enthusiast in England has stumbled upon a treasure trove of silver coins believed to be 1,000 years old and worth about $60,000. Fifty-year-old Don ...

At the May meeting, some of the best finds were a copper nickel, an Indian head penny and a 1905 Barber dime. The element of surprise is what makes Heisey so devoted to detecting, which he has been ...

Discovering ancient treasure resulted in a major payday for the lucky finder. A 34-year-old archaeologist named George Ridgway found a collection of more than 680 gold and silver coins with his metal ...

A British man who found a massive cache of ancient Roman gold and silver coins while hunting with a metal detector has a lot more modern currency in his pocket after the treasure was auctioned off for ...

Thom Parham is on a mission to uncover parts of Florida’s buried past. The 64-year-old history teacher and conventional archeologist in Keystone Heights has his sights on finding Seminole War Fort No.

An amateur metal detectorist discovered a buried hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins near Bucharest, Romania. The coins, which spanned multiple eras, were buried in a ceramic container roughly 1,700 ...

Sept. 26 (UPI) --A British auctioneer is preparing to sell off a cache of 99 coins that were minted about 1,000 years ago and were recently discovered by a man with a metal detector. Don Crawley said ...

On April 1, amateur metal detectorists Katarzyna Herdzik and Jacek Ukowski made a stunning discovery on a Polish beach. Their scanners led them to an ornate 24cm dagger covered in stars and crescent ...

Krzysztof Kozłowski was using his metal detector to search for artifacts in Poland when he came across something extraordinary. Buried near the Vistula River in Józefów, a silver coin with serrated ...