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Bus Cashier’s Curiosity Preserved a 2,000-Year-Old Carthaginian Coin for 70 Years
A 2,000-year-old Carthaginian coin minted in the ancient Mediterranean has resurfaced in an unexpected place: Leeds. The small bronze artifact survived not through excavation or a collector’s cabinet, but thanks to the curiosity of a Leeds bus cashier in the 1950s who set aside unusual foreign coins while counting daily fares. The coin was discovered…