A rare coin that was used to pay for bus rides in the 1950s in England has been found to be over 2000 years old after it was donated to the Leeds Museums and Galleries.
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.
An ancient Phoenician coin once used as a bus fare in England, is now identified as a 2,000-year-old artifact.
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.
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Coin used to pay for bus fare belongs to ancient civilisation - ...
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 ...
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.