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 ...
For most people who grew up in the suburbs, a trip to the grocery store looked and felt like a completely different experience than what it is today. Children often accompanied—or rather, were dragged ...
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 ...
LEEDS, England (CNN/CNN NEWSOURCE/WKRC) - A routine bus fare in Leeds decades ago has resulted in a museum acquiring a coin more than 2,000 years old. The Leeds Discovery Centre recently received the ...
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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 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 ...
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