Ancient and historic coinage recovered by metal detectorists — Roman denarii, Saxon sceattas, medieval hammered silver and later milled issues.
In 2012 two Jersey detectorists who had searched the same area for 30 years found a hoard of nearly 70,000 Iron Age coins and gold jewellery. It is the largest Celtic coin hoard ever found.
A legal detector search in woodland near Elbląg has turned up six ninth-century Arab silver dirhams and two fragments, close to the Viking-Age trading port of Truso.
A volunteer detectorist near Cologne kept getting signals, and the result is 934 Roman silver coins, the largest coin hoard from the time of Hadrian ever found in Germany.
Two detectorists in northern Luxembourg spotted a Roman gold coin in a ploughed field in 2019. Years of secret excavation uncovered a hoard of 141 gold solidi beside a Roman watchtower.
Archaeologists digging the site of a new fire station in Thuringia found eleven Celtic silver coins, the largest hoard of its kind ever found in the state, buried in the first century BC.
