“Today’s Fenwick Island, a thriving resort,” the Smyrna Times reported on Sept.3, 1959, “bears little resemblance to the earlier Fenwick Island, which had few inhabitants and was, at times barely ...

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A London-area auction house sold one of Britain’s rarest coins on Wednesday, a coveted Queen Anne “Vigo” 5-guinea gold piece. With an auction price of £225,000, or about $279,000, the coin is one of ...

MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (WJAR) — Sweet Berry Farm in Middletown covers more than 100 acres. Armed with a metal detector in 2014, Jim Bailey unearthed a small, silver coin about the size of an American dime.

It's been over three centuries since one of the world's most infamous treasures went missing. It has still not been found, but supposedly, it's here at the Jersey Shore. Captain William Kidd, an ...

According to historian and metal-detector enthusiast Jim Bailey, the handful of 17th-century Arabic coins unearthed at sites across New England could be remnants of an infamous pirate's last big score ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to metal detectorist Jim Bailey about discovering an ancient coin in Rhode Island that may solve the world's oldest cold case. A handful of ancient change could be the key to ...

WASHINGTON (Amazing America TV) — The United States is home to some of the most tantalizing tales of hidden treasures, with legends spanning from the dusty trails of New Mexico to the rugged ...

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (WKRC) - Dozens of gold coins that were stolen from a 300-year-old shipwreck have been recovered, with an estimated value of $1 million. A group of 11 Spanish treasure ships full of ...

A handful of coins unearthed from a pick-your-own-fruit orchard in rural Rhode Island and other random corners of New England may help solve one of the planet’s oldest cold cases. The villain in this ...

Erlend Bore needed to get more exercise, so he bought a metal detector and started walking more. He found what he thought were chocolate coins, but they were gold jewelry from about 500 AD. Bore's ...