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March 2014 a small but exceedingly rare gold coin was found by a metal detectorist near Winchester, which will be sold on September 8, 2014. It shows two snakelike corded crescents on one side and a lanky belted horse on the other side. Only one other example is recorded.

In 2012 two metal detectorists found the world’s largest hoard of Celtic coins in Jersey. The approximately 70,000 coins are now on display in Jersey’s museum and publicly cleaned in a glass fronted lab.

Peter Tompa is a coin collector as well as a lawyer and expert in cultural property issues. In his blog he published an article on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee (CPAC) public session on the Egyption MOU. We re-publish this article in CoinsWeekly to help spreading it among numismatists.

Two coin hoards in close proximity to each other have been discovered in the North of Scotland, one of them being the first find of Roman coins in this area. The coins shed more light on our understanding of the relations between Romans and Celts in Antiquity.

According to the British Museum, almost 1,000 objects classified as treasures were discovered by hobby archaeologists and metal detectorists in 2012. Those private treasure hunters have contributed a lot to our knowledge about history.

In December 2013 a metal detectorist found an English coin from the 16th century on Canada’s West Coast. A hobby archaeologist who heard about this took the find to be proof of his theory that the English had discovered Canada 200 years before the Spanish. But does the coin really prove that?

Celtic coin expert Chris Rudd will sell in auction four coins attributed to the obscure Belgae tribe, a tribe that has primarily become known again through numismatic testimonies thanks in particular to metal detectorists.

Chris Rudd’s Elizabeth Cottam, expert on Celtic coins, explains how to recognise counterfeits of coins of the Celtic king Cunobelin since the number of those apparently has significantly increased recently.

14 silver groats minted under Henry VIII were found in a field in Norfolk (UK) and now declared treasure by a coroner. The coins may have been concealed during the famous Kett’s rebellion in 1549.

Robert W. Wallace, one of our steady readers and Professor of Classics at Northwestern University (USA) shares with us his memories of how he collected coins during his Rome stay in the 1960s. And about how differently coin collecting was considered at that epoch.