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 ...

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 ...

There’s something undeniably thrilling about the hunt for hidden treasures beneath our feet. From coins with centuries of history to curious everyday relics lost to time, metal detecting captures the ...

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 ...

An ancient Celtic coin discovered in a field in northeast England could fetch over $5,000. A metal detectorist in Lelley, ...

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 ...

We're not trying to scare you. People in San Antonio are finding treasures from the turn of the century – as in, the turn of the 20th century – underground. As KENS 5 learned, while these discoveries ...

EMBDEN, Maine — 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, N.C., was on a metal-detecting ...

Metal detecting usually means coins, junk, and the occasional odd find. That changed quickly on this day. The first discovery ...

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 ...