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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When checking the contents of donation boxes or sales at cash-based sales events, you may occasionally find foreign currency mixed in, making you wonder, 'Why is this here?' A mysterious coin used to ...

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 ...