The coins — believed to be from the 980s — were discovered in a Danish cornfield last autumn Kirsty Hatcher is an Associate Editor on the People.com Morning Team. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

While we were Metal Detecting an old house for coins we got a surprise with something we have never found before using a metal detector! We got permission on an old house that is listed on the ...

A group of amateur archaeologists in Denmark found a Viking silver hoard. The loot of 300 items includes ancient coins, silver balls, and a ring pin. The people who discovered the trove were on a ...

Nearly 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered near a Viking fortress site in northwestern Denmark, a museum said Thursday. The rare trove -- lying in two spots ...

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 ...

Nearly 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered near a Viking fortress site in northwestern Denmark, a museum said Thursday. The rare trove -- lying in two spots ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. EMBDEN, Maine (AP) — A man with a metal ...

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 ...

At first, the Norwegian man thought his metal detector reacted to chocolate money buried in the soil. It turned out to be nine pendants, three rings and 10 gold pearls in what was described as the ...