Coin used to pay for bus ticket in Leeds found to be 2,000 years old - The coin was given to a local bus driver decades ago ...
Peter Edwards was gifted the Spanish coin by his grandfather in the 1950s in Leeds, England ...
A public transit official working for the city of Leeds found the coin while counting bus and tram fares. Now, his grandson ...
Its owner has donated the artifact to the Leeds Discovery Centre after decades puzzling over its origins.
A coin once used to pay a bus fare in Leeds was created by an ancient civilisation more than 2,000 years ago, researchers ...
The ancient coin was probably minted in what is now Spain in the first century B.C., but no one knows why it was used to pay ...
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A 2,000-Year-Old Phoenician Coin Was Once Used as Bus Fare in England… But How Did It Get There?
A Phoenician bronze coin from the first century BC, minted in ancient Gadir (modern Cádiz), was discovered in a Leeds bus fare box. Featuring the god Melqart and bluefin tuna, the coin reflects ...
The origins of a bronze coin that someone used to pay for a bus journey in Leeds in the 1950s have been revealed after more than 70 years. The remarkable piece was discovered by James Edwards, who ...
Coin used to pay for bus fare belongs to ancient civilisation - ...
A coin once used to pay a bus fare in Leeds has been identified as a 2,000-year-old Carthaginian coin from Spain and is now part of the Leeds Museums collection.
An ancient Phoenician coin more than 2,000 years old, once unknowingly used to pay a bus fare in the British city of Leeds, ...
An ancient Phoenician coin once used as a bus fare in England, is now identified as a 2,000-year-old artifact.
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