VICTORIA, Canada (AFP) - An amateur treasure hunter with a hand-held metal detector has turned Canadian history on its head after finding a 16th century shilling buried in clay on the shores of ...

An amateur treasure hunter with a hand-held metal detector has turned Canadian history on its head after finding a 16th century shilling buried in clay on the shores of Vancouver Island. The ...

A shilling coin from 1652 that was made in Boston could be worth $300,000. The coin is considered to be the finest example of the roughly 40 such coins known to still exist, according to auctioneer ...

An extraordinarily rare coin with a face value of just pennies when it was minted in mid-17th century New England could sell for the equivalent of about $300,000 when it's put up for auction in London ...

The discovery of a rare 435-year-old Edward VI silver shilling buried in clay on the shores of Vancouver Island has rekindled the theory that Elizabethan explorer Sir Francis Drake landed in Canada ...

A rare coin minted in colonial New England sold for $350,000 at auction Friday, even more than the auctioneer expected. The one-shilling coin was made in Boston in 1652, one of the first coins ever ...

The 12-shilling coin is called a ‘unite’ coin and it dates all the way back to 1625 (Pictures: SWNS) A 400-year-old gold coin that was found in a pile of loose change may fetch up to £2,000 when ...

British-owned forts and batteries at Point Pleasant Park used to form the front lines of Halifax Harbour's defence. In 1866, the British offered the lands to the city on a lease, that ended up being ...