Our goal was to find Union or Confederate relics - but what we stumbled upon was a buried coin trove. Turns out, this spot doubled as a recreation area after the Civil War, and its visitors left ...

A Kentucky farmer stumbled on one of the biggest troves of Civil War gold coins ever found, fuelling the dreams of treasure ...

By Chris Cameron A Civil War-era treasure of more than 700 gold coins was unearthed in a Kentucky ... It is unclear how he found the gold and whether he had suspected that the treasure was buried ...

A treasure hunter who was inspired by BBC comedy Detectorists to take up the hobby found a £50,000 silver coin hoard just two ...

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An unidentified man found a treasure trove of gold coins in a Kentucky cornfield. The coins, which were minted before or during the Civil War, could be worth more than $1 million. Urban legends ...

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A treasure hunter inspired by the BBC comedy Detectorists found a valuable Civil War coin haul just two months after taking up the hobby. The hoard of 16th Century and 17th Century silver coins, which ...