A man paid for a bus ride with a mysterious coin. It was 2,000 years old.

The man’s grandson donated the coin to a museum, where experts identified its origin.
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'Rare' Coin Used to Pay for Bus Ride Found to Be Over 2000 Years Old

A coin over 2,000 years old has been revealed in England. On Monday, March 9, Leeds City Council shared in a press release that a man had donated the ancient coin, which was once used to pay for bus ...
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Someone Used This Mysterious Coin as Bus Fare in the 1950s. It Turned Out to Be 2,000-Year-Old Currency Minted by the Phoenicians

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 ...
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Strange Coin Used on U.K. Bus Turns Out to Be 2,000-Year-Old Relic

A mysterious coin once used as bus fare in Leeds in the 1950s was identified as ancient Phoenician currency. The bronze coin dates back roughly 2,000 years to Gadir, a Carthaginian settlement in ...

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 ...