Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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Sætre and Sørlie did everything correctly when they first found 19 silver coins in early April, earning praise from the municipality.

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 ...

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Amazing metal detecting finds, my oldest coin ever! Some really fantastic coin discoveries with my metal detector from the past few years. pay special attention to the oldest coin I've ever found!

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A team of Spanish researchers at the University of Lleida have developed a way to detect false coins using mouse sensors, detecting particular patterns in two Euro coins, which at the ongoing exchange ...

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 ...