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Archaeologists excavating the foundation of a historic house in Russia discovered 409 coins buried before the revolution in 1917.

Sometimes the most revealing doorway into history is not a palace vault, but a broken kitchen pot. That is the scale of the ...

In January 2019, Adam Staples and his then-partner Lisa Grace traveled to Chew Valley in Somerset, the U.K., to help a friend test their new metal detector. Walking across an unassuming field, it didn ...

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A hoard of 18 Iron Age gold coins discovered in a field by a metal detecting history professor has sold for £33,200 at auction. The coins are the largest known find from the reign of Iron Age king ...

The coins featured the images of Nero, Marcus Aurelius, seven other Roman emperors and two empresses, records show. Screenshot of Facebook post by Marius Mangeac (Bebe Mangeac). A metal detectorist in ...

A little over a year ago, a group of metal detectorists found a hoard of 21 coins in a field near Okehamption Castle in Devon, England. The find was just recently brought to light due to laws ...

Five years after emerging from the grounds of Chelmsford, the U.K.’s largest recorded hoard of ancient gold coins has found a new home. Unearthed by a metal detectorist, the Great Baddow Hoard (named ...

A group of metal detectorists uncovered an extraordinary hoard of 2,584 ancient coins in a Somerset field valued at £4.3million. The 11th-century coin trove, known as the Chew Valley Hoard, is now ...