Related: 32 stunning centuries-old hoards unearthed by metal detectorists The stash includes a gold coin known as a "golden ...

An eight-year-old boy has unearthed an extremely rare silver coin while playing in a sandbox, dating to about 1,800 years before he was born. The young boy, who was identified only by his first ...

"Most of the coins are so called Antoniniani, which were the official silver coin in the Roman Empire ... One of them is that the Gallic Empire tried bribing German elites either not to attack ...

A 800-year-old cache of gold jewelry and silver coins was discovered in northern Germany. And where there’s newly unearthed gold, there’s quite likely an amateur metal detectorist who located it.

Further investigation led the police to a 46-year-old German man and ... contained a mix of gold, silver and copper that corresponded to the composition of the gold coins that had been stolen ...

The silver denarius weighs 0.08 ounces (2.4 grams) and is one of the only coins of its kind found in Bremen. Bremen Culture Department An 8-year-old boy named Bjarne was playing in a sandbox at ...

In addition to the gold and silver coins, the treasure contains about 800 pennies. The loss of this hoard was likely a tragedy at the time, Dräger said. "This makes the find a highly significant ...