A public transit official working for the city of Leeds found the coin while counting bus and tram fares. Now, his grandson has donated it to Leeds Museums and Galleries ...
Peter Edwards was gifted the Spanish coin by his grandfather in the 1950s in Leeds, England ...
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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 a 1950s transport fare.
A 2,000-year-old Carthaginian coin minted in ancient Cádiz was unknowingly used to pay a bus fare in Leeds in the 1950s before being donated to Leeds Museums and Galleries.
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An ancient Phoenician coin once used as a bus fare in England, is now identified as a 2,000-year-old artifact.
James Edwards, chief cashier for Leeds Transport Company in the 1950s, put aside any fake or foreign coins he found, passing them to his grandson Peter.
A coin once used to pay a bus fare in Leeds was created by an ancient civilisation more than 2,000 years ago, researchers have confirmed. The rare currency came into the hands of James Edwards in the ...
The owner's diligent research eventually revealed that his grandfather’s gift came from what was once a Carthaginian settlement: Cadiz.