The artefact was unknowingly handed to a bus driver in the 1950s ...
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.
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 ...
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 and kept in a chest ever since ...
Its owner has donated the artifact to the Leeds Discovery Centre after decades puzzling over its origins.
A public transit official working for the city of Leeds found the coin while counting bus and tram fares. Now, his grandson ...
Peter Edwards was gifted the Spanish coin by his grandfather in the 1950s in Leeds, England ...
An ancient Phoenician coin once used as a bus fare in England, is now identified as a 2,000-year-old artifact.
The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.