Ancient Roman gold and silver coins were found in 2019 by a metal detectorist in Suffolk. Years later, the coins made an impressive showing at auction, earning the finder thousands.

Most consumer metal detectors find coin-sized objects 8–16 inches deep, but pro models can find items several feet down. In ...

Some people spend a lifetime trying to amass a fortune through hard work and guile. For one British man, it took only 20 minutes in a field with a metal detector — the first 20 minutes he had ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — A hobbyist with a metal detector struck both gold and silver when he uncovered an important cache of ancient Celtic coins in a cornfield in the southern Dutch city of ...

The English city of St. Albans will be displaying a large batch of late Roman gold coins found by an amateur using a metal detector.

A Norwegian out walking on doctors’ advice unearthed rare 6th-century gold jewelry using a newly bought metal detector.

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 ...

A Norwegian man using a metal detector first thought he found some chocolate money buried in the soil, it wound up being the country's gold find of the century.

On the first day he used his new metal detector, he found the oldest gold coin in England, dating back to the 13th century. "The day after it arrived, I went out into this field.

Earlier this week, the detector beeped and they found the world's largest-ever stash of Celtic coins. Host Scott Simon speaks with Reg Mead about their find.