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 ...

EMBDEN, Maine — A North Carolina 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. The Bangor Daily News reports that Shane ...

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 ...

BANTING, Selangor: On a cloudy weekday afternoon, a slightly over one-hour drive from the bustle of Kuala Lumpur, Morib Beach on Selangor’s west coast is a picture of relative calm and quiet. Aside ...

A pastime in a farmer’s field led to the discovery of Norman-era coins valued at more than $5 million. By Ali Watkins The group huddled together in the farmer’s field, staring at the dozen or so ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The coins were worth £10 each during their time, around £2,000 today. (SWNS) An amateur metal detectorist has unearthed a haul of ...

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 ...