What started as a routine day of metal detecting quickly turned into a momentous outing that yielded the discovery of a lifetime. While scanning a local pasture in Leicestershire, England ...

A young girl made a surprising discovery while using a metal detector in Denmark: 1,000-year-old Viking coins ... silver that were found, around 50 were said to be whole coins.

He spent six years scanning the same fields in Wall Heath near Dudley every spring and fall until he uncovered the 1,900-year-old coin, considered the first of its kind found in the United Kingdom.

Could your old pennies be hidden treasures ... "It is all about the date and condition of these coins," he said. "An example of this would be if you found a 1967 pre decimal penny then it isn ...

Adrian Marsden, a coin specialist at the Norfolk Historic Environment Service, which is part of the regional government, said the coins were found near ... least 300 years old and are at least ...