Called the “Holy Grail of shipwrecks,” the Spanish galleon San José sank in 1708 after it was attacked by an English navy ...

A mysterious 18th-century coin recently resurfaced on a beach in Nantucket, thanks to one determined metal detectorist. Hobbyist Travis Nichols found the coin — a 1782 silver Spanish one-reale — at a ...

A keen metal detectorist has hit the jackpot of an ancient Roman coin hoard - 20 years after he first took up his hobby.

Just because you’re not looking for buried treasure doesn’t mean you won’t find it. Case in point, a man digging a pool ...

Steve Werlein, the coin collector we reported on Thurs., Nov. 13, when we covered a story on penny production ending, may have found his rare coin. After the story aired, ...

Florida's "Treasure Coast" continues to prove its name fits, with wreck divers reporting the discovery of 1,051 silver coins and five gold coins on the seafloor. The 300-year-old coins were found over ...

A large team of researchers affiliated with multiple institutions across Europe, has found evidence backing up work by Persi Diaconis in 2007 in which he suggested tossed coins are more likely to land ...

The hundreds of silver coins were found over the summer on a shipwreck that is believed to have been part of a lost fleet of up to a dozen Spanish treasure ships known today as the 1715 Fleet, ...