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 ...

Dozens of ancient coins believed to have been stolen ... amateur archaeologists managed to find dozens of 1,000-year-old ...

The latest such discovery is a very rare, ancient silver coin dating back some ... It was minted with a square stamp embedded into one face. More sophisticated techniques for coins with protruding ...

Marius Mangeac A man recently discovered nearly 1,500 silver coins from ancient Rome while hiking. Romanian man Marius Mangeac made the discovery in April while walking with his metal detector in ...

A plumber in the United Kingdom unwittingly discovered ancient treasure while ... snowballed from there over a [four-square meter] area and we found 50 coins in total," Dunn recalled.

A 1,300-year-old gold and silver hoard near Hezingen, Netherlands, suggests an ancient pagan worship site. Researchers found coins, jewellery and relics possibly used in religious offerings.

In a very small area - less than a fifth of a square mile - the searchers ... by the searchers were a small cache of ancient Roman denars, or silver coins. There were three silver denars imprinted ...

Adam Staples and his fellow treasure hunters were excited when a metal detector sweep in a field in Somerset uncovered an ancient silver coin. "The first one was a William the Conqueror coin ...

Originating in Ancient Greece in the sixth century BCE, the avian-themed silver coins were renowned for their extraordinary purity and helped to change the entire course of history by financing ...

It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A hoard of silver coins dating back to the 11th century have been unearthed by Oxford archaeologists at the site for a new nuclear power ...

The “stater” coins were found at less than 30cm ... “More Viking Age silver has been discovered per square kilometre [on the Isle of Man] than in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales ...