When Peter Edwards visited his grandfather’s house as a child, he’d often leave with a few interesting coins in his pocket. They were usually fake or foreign pieces his grandfather, James Edwards, had ...

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 ...

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 ...

Peter Edwards was gifted the Spanish coin by his grandfather in the 1950s in Leeds, England Leeds City Council A coin donated to a museum in England has been found to be over 2000 years old The money ...

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 ...