He'd given up metal detecting but happened to have his machine with him. Find out how one lucky detectorist made a £650,000 find here.

In a nation where money is counted in pounds, the measure of coins is given great weight – and a lavish ceremony. Judges in red robes and white gloves convened yesterday in the ornate livery hall of ...

A treasure hunter unearthed a silver coin minted during the reign of Guthrum, a Viking commander of eastern England.

Malcolm Weale was in a farmer's field with his metal detector when he unearthed a tiny and dirt-covered object.

Most of the objects were found by people metal-detecting and in agricultural regions, where they could have been lost to ...

A jury has convened in London for an ancient ceremony to certify that British coins meet the strictest of standards ...

most of these coins were melted down to settle war debts," the experts wrote in an online blog. "Today, they’re a testament to wartime sacrifice and economic strategy." The British government ...

Rare coin specialists are highlighting the value ... to wartime sacrifice and economic strategy." During the war, the British government issued bonds to raise funds, with many US investors buying ...

The 404 coins, including 44 from Britain, are believed to be a mix of military pay and the spoils of war, stashed by a Roman soldier after he returned to the European continent Eli Wizevich ...

Over 380 gold and silver coins sat on Messelaar’s ... the finds as a 2,000-year-old collection of British, Roman and African coins. The coins were buried together around 47 A.D., likely in ...

Hundreds of Roman-era gold and silver coins were found in a field ... and are a mix of Roman and British coins. Bunnik, the village where they were buried, was once along the northern border ...

The 44 gold coins bearing the inscription of AD40 British Celtic King Cunobelin were ... managed to find dozens of 1,000-year-old Viking silver coins, dating from AD 1000 to 1065, on the Isle ...