After its ancient origins were finally discovered, a 2,000-year-old Carthaginian coin unknowingly used as bus fare in England was donated to Leeds Museums.

Minted in Spain, the coin originally came from Cadiz near the Mediterranean Sea.

The owner's diligent research eventually revealed that his grandfather’s gift came from what was once a Carthaginian ...

An odd-looking coin used to pay for a bus fare in Leeds in the 1950s has been found to belong to an ancient civilisation from more than 2,000 years ago. The coin, handed to a local bus driver decades ...

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 ...

A 2,000-year-old coin was unknowingly used as bus fare in England — before officials realized it dated back to ...

This Carthaginian coin bears the image of the god Melqart, who is considered equivalent to Hercules in Phoenician tradition.

The money was used to pay for a bus ride in Leeds in the 1950s, before it was gifted to Peter Edwards by his grandfather, who worked for Leeds City Transport The ancient coin was deemed "rare" and ...

Made in the 1st century BC by descendants of the Carthaginians, the money features their god Melqart, ruler of the underworld ...

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 ...