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.

TAMPA, Fla (WFLA) — State Wildlife officials have found stolen treasure from a shipwreck that happened almost 300 years ago. Experts in this field said this was a pretty incredible find. “It’s Spanish ...

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 ...

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From pirates who left behind buried booty to gold miners whose legendary stash was never discovered, there are plenty of mysteries out there about cash, gold and assorted treasure yet to be found.

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 ...

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 ...