Man With Metal Detector Finds 222-Year-Old Coin Near Church

Man With Metal Detector Finds 222-Year-Old Coin Near Church
A man uses a metal detector on Venice Beach, California, in the morning of Dec. 15, 2019. Bruce Bennett/Getty Images
The Associated Press
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EMBDEN, Maine—A man with a metal detector has found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of soil outside a church in Maine.

Shane Houston, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was on a metal-detecting trip with a friend from New Hampshire when he found the coin earlier this month, the Bangor Daily News reported.