Scanning parks and beaches with one of these can be a unique and fascinating hobby.

A public program on metal detecting discoveries will take place April 2 in Geneva. The event is scheduled for 7 p.m. at the Geneva History Museum on South Main Street. Rebecca J. Eastman and Jess ...

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 ...

Rare coins can go for hundreds of pounds, if not more. Certain designs are worth more than others, while some could sell for double its face value. Now a group of people managed to find a huge stash ...

A lucky treasure hunter has discovered a £23,000 hoard of silver coins with a metal detector he won in a raffle. Novice Mickey Richardson had only been using the metal detector for three months when ...

A piece of Japanese currency typically wouldn’t have a reason to show up in Australia. But the 1800s gold rush brought ...

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 ...

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 ...