Roman silver hoard with 45 coins and a gold ring found on Sweden’s Gotland
A detector survey ahead of a military expansion on Gotland has found 45 Roman silver coins and a gold ring, buried at an ancient farm around AD 450.
Ref 71
Discoveries by category
Hoards
Buried groups of coins and precious metal, hidden for safekeeping and never reclaimed.
Latest Hoards
32 finds · page 4 of 4
Two people made an extraordinary discovery inside an iron box while on a leisurely hike in the woods
Two hikers in north-east Czechia found 598 gold coins and a box of jewellery hidden in an old field wall, and handed everything to the regional museum the same day.
Ref 70
A farmer lost a hammer in his field and went looking for it with a metal detector — instead he found nearly 15,000 Roman coins
In 1992 a farmer lost a hammer and asked a friend with a metal detector to find it. He found the Hoxne Hoard instead: nearly 15,000 Roman coins and 200 pieces of gold and silver, now in the British Museum.
Ref 19
Norway’s largest known Viking Age hoard found
Two detectorists in Østerdalen found Norway's largest Viking Age coin hoard in April 2026. After the harvest, the search resumed, and the count has now passed 5,000 coins.
Ref 49
A Metal Detectorist Dug up 52,503 Roman Coins
In 2010 a detectorist near Frome found a pot holding 52,503 Roman coins, the largest Roman hoard ever found in a single container in Britain. He stopped digging and called in the experts.
Ref 44
Saddle Ridge Hoard: 1,427 gold coins found on a California property
Walking their dog on their own land in 2013, a California couple spotted a rusty can sticking out of the ground. It was the first of eight, holding 1,427 gold coins worth about $10 million.
Ref 4
Finland's largest known late Iron Age coin hoard found at Sysmä
A detectorist near Sysmä in southern Finland has found the country's largest Viking Age coin hoard: about 4.5 kilograms of silver coins, split between two birch-bark containers.
Ref 3
18.5-kilogram Viking silver hoard found in Denmark is the largest ever discovered
A homeowner laying a new terrace in Rebild, north Jutland, dug up Denmark's largest Viking silver hoard: 18.5 kilograms, about 700 pieces, nearly three times the previous record.
Ref 2