It’s one of the biggest hoards of its kind ever found in Germany, worth roughly six years of a Roman soldier’s savings.

The massive silver discovery contains more than twice as many coins as Finland’s previous record-holding Viking Age hoard — and no one knows who buried it ...

Aquachigger returned to a familiar river beneath an old historic bridge, hoping to uncover coins and forgotten objects with ...

Oliver Riedl called the authorities for help and a group of experts who began digging immediately discovered a total of 934 Roman silver denarii. It is the biggest coin treasure ever found in Germany ...

A man who discovered Roman silver coins in a field realized he had stumbled upon something bigger when his metal detector kept signaling.

A Finnish metal detectorist has uncovered what is believed to be the country's largest known Viking Age silver coin hoard after finding thousands of ancient coins near the village centre of Sysmä.

The trove is Finland's largest coin discovery from the age, experts said.

Having only ever found a silver coin while metal detecting, Idris Thomas was shocked to strike gold. It is engraved with a heart and believed to have been a memento of a King Charles I loyalist.

Nearly 300 silver coins believed to be more than 1,000 years old have been discovered near a Viking fortress site in northwestern Denmark, a museum said Thursday. The rare trove -- lying in two spots ...

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 ...

A metal detectorist in Finland unearthed a massive Viking Age silver hoard estimated to contain more than 4,000 coins — the largest discovery of its kind ever found in the country. The hoard, ...

The coins — believed to be from the 980s — were discovered in a Danish cornfield last autumn A young girl made a surprising discovery while using a metal detector in Denmark: 1,000-year-old Viking ...