More on the Leeds Carthaginian bus fare

PUNIC WATCH AND NUMISMATICS: 2,000-year-old Phoenician coin was used as bus fare in England, but 'how it got there will always be a mystery' (Kristina Killgrove, Live Science).

But one particular coin intrigued Peter, whose research into the designs on the coin revealed that it was minted more than 2,000 years ago in a Phoenician settlement called Gadir (now known as the city of Cádiz) in Spain's Andalusia region.

This article has some addition historical background on the coin. Technically it is Punic, from a Carthaginian colony in Spain, not Phoenician. Carthage was founded as a colony in North Africa by the Phoenicians, who lived in Lebanon.

I first noted the story here.

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