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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, it was a nuisance: a dodgy, seemingly foreign coin that wouldn’t clear the ...
Indiatimes

This 2000-year-old coin collected as bus fare in the 1950s, turns out to be a rare artefact

A tiny bronze coin that was used as payment for the bus ride in Leeds a few decades ago has now proved to have a much deeper history than anyone could imagine. An object that was initially considered ...
NDTV

Paid As A Bus Fare, Coin Turns Out To Be 2,000-Year-Old Relic

A 2,000-year-old Carthaginian coin was used unknowingly as bus fare in England The coin dates back to the first century BC and was minted in what is now Cadiz James Edwards found the coin in the 1950s ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs

Passenger paid for an English bus ride with a coin dating back two millennia

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 ...