I feel like every child dreams of uncovering buried treasure at some point in their lives. For me, as a child who spent a lot of time in Florida growing up, I was always digging for pirate booty.

A metal detectorist uncovered a rare 19th-century Japanese coin at an Australian Gold Rush campsite near Ballarat, calling ...

Tom Licence says he feels a personal connection to the coins, which are to be auctioned.

A metal detector hobbyist discovered a centuries’ old coin while scouring an abandoned sports field—and the coin is especially rare for the area. In the southern Australian province of Victoria, ...

James Hyatt, age 4, was rambling around a green field with his dad on a pleasant day one May. Holding his dad’s metal detector in Hockley, a large village in the UK about 2 hours’ drive from London, ...

A metal detectorist found what he believes is the largest gold nugget ever found in England. Despite arriving late and using faulty equipment, he found the 64.8-gram nugget within just five minutes of ...

A metal detectorist searching a farm in Norway unearthed a “chocolate wrapper” and found a rare 1,200-year-old gold artifact, archaeologists said. Google Street ...

MUSCATINE, Iowa (KWQC) - They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and that rings true for a couple who started a metal detecting non profit 10 years ago. Casey and Mindy Oberreuter created ...