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Coin used as payment in a bus in 1950s England turns out to be 2,000-year-old Phoenician currency
In the 1950s, a passenger in Leeds, England, boarded a bus and paid their fare with a funny-looking coin. For the bus driver, ...
Kat Baxter, curator of archaeology and numismatics for Leeds Museums and Galleries, poses with the 2,000-year-old coin. Leeds Museums and Galleries When Peter Edwards visited his grandfather’s house ...
The money was used to pay for a bus ride in Leeds in the 1950s, before it was gifted to Peter Edwards by his grandfather, who worked for Leeds City Transport The ancient coin was deemed "rare" and ...
Its owner has donated the artifact to the Leeds Discovery Centre after decades puzzling over its origins.
The coin’s age and iconography identify it with Gadir, a settlement founded by the Phoenicians and considered Carthage’s first colony in Western Europe. A 2,000-year-old bronze coin once slipped into ...
Peter Edwards was gifted the Spanish coin by his grandfather in the 1950s in Leeds, England Leeds City Council A coin donated to a museum in England has been found to be over 2000 years old The money ...
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