'Rare' Coin Used to Pay for Bus Ride Found to Be Over 2000 Years Old

Peter Edwards was gifted the Spanish coin by his grandfather in the 1950s in Leeds, England ...

Passenger paid for an English bus ride with a coin dating back two millennia

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.
Smithsonian Magazine

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

A public transit official working for the city of Leeds found the coin while counting bus and tram fares. Now, his grandson has donated it to Leeds Museums and Galleries ...
ZME Science

Coin Used as Payment in a Bus in 1950s England Turns out To Be 2,000-Year-Old Phoenician Currency

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 ...
Greek Reporter

2,000-Year-Old Phoenician Coin Discovered After Being Used as Bus Fare in England

An ancient Phoenician coin once used as a bus fare in England, is now identified as a 2,000-year-old artifact.