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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. According to the release, the antique was originally produced by “Carthaginians, part of the Phoenician culture, in the Spanish ...

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 ...

When checking the contents of donation boxes or sales at cash-based sales events, you may occasionally find foreign currency mixed in, making you wonder, 'Why is this here?' A mysterious coin used to ...

A 2,000-year-old coin was unknowingly used as bus fare in England — before officials realized it dated back to the Carthaginian empire. The artifact, produced in what is now Cadiz, Spain, was recently ...

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 ...