An ancient Spanish coin, minted 2,000 years ago, was mistakenly used as bus fare in Leeds in 1950. Discovered by a cashier, ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The timeline, as we understand it, begins when a commuter in Leeds, perhaps unknowingly, used this unusual coin to pay their bus fare. At the end of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's the end of an era of coin-operated grocery store rides and one photographer documents the disappearance. Before And After: Arizona’s Disappearing Coin-Operated Rides It's the end of an era of ...

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 ...