A group of amateur detectorists are celebrating after their unlikely find of 600 medieval coins was declared treasure. The haul – believed to be the biggest found in decade – is worth £150,000.

The latest coins were minted in the autumn of 1642, the beginning of the English Civil War and just prior to the Battle of Aylesbury, which took place a few miles away at Holman's Bridge.

The coins, discovered in an undisclosed location in Suffolk, dated back to the reign of Ethelred II Picture: JONATHAN BRADY/PA The haul of 99 Anglo-Saxon silver pennies was discovered by local ...

MONEY that jiggles and doesn’t fold is what coin deposit machines (CoDMs) look for. The machines, launched by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) in June, have been efficient and collected as ...

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 ...