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

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A father was encouraged by his children to take up his old hobby of metal detecting. On his first day using the new detector he ...

Father-and-son duo Sławomir and Szymon Milewski discovered the coins while searching for an ancient road. Polish “Husaria” Treasure Hunters Association While wandering a Polish forest, a ...

Professor Tom Licence from the University of East Anglia has made an incredible discovery: the largest known hoard of Iron Age gold coins, found in a field near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. The 18 gold ...

17-year-old Reece Pickering found one of just three surviving silver pennies dated to Harold II's reign. Courtesy of Hansons This summer, two British teenagers wielding metal detectors separately ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A metal detectorist scouring an Australian campsite used during the 1851 gold rush discovered a mid-19 th century Japanese coin.

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 ...

When his children were born, Michael Leigh-Mallory gave up his passion for metal detecting. Now, 10 and 13, they encouraged him to take up the hobby again. On the first day he used his new metal ...