A North Carolina man has found buried treasure in Maine while on vacation. Shane Houston found a two-century-old coin buried in the dirt near a church in Embden, Maine, earlier this month as he went ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Whether you’ve lost a ring outdoors or have a hankering to go treasure hunting on your beach day, 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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Tokugawa government began minting Tenpō Tsūhō coins in 1835. A metal detector hobbyist discovered a centuries’ old coin while ...

17-year-old Reece Pickering found one of just three surviving silver pennies dated to Harold II's reign. Courtesy of Hansons This summer, two British teenagers wielding metal detectors separately ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. It's safe to say, metal detecting isn't a hobby that works for everyone. While some are out searching plowed fields for colonial relics, ...

LONDON – When Malcolm Weale saw the tiny, dirt-covered object he’d unearthed in an English field, he knew it was something special. In his hand was a silver penny minted during the reign of Guthrum, a ...

Don’t kid yourself: You’ve probably always wanted a metal detector. After seeing them in so many movies and television shows, and maybe even hobbyists at the beach using one, maybe it’s about time you ...

There's often history just beneath your feet, waiting to be discovered. A long-forgotten button, an antique coin, or even a remnant from one of the wars that shaped our country. Trying to unearth ...

Good morning. I'm Leila Fadel. A treasure hunter with a metal detector stumbled upon a stash of over 1,100 silver coins in Romania. Silver coins date back to the Roman Empire and had turned bluish ...