European given ancient coin, gold, for teacher (8)
I believe the answer is:
educator
'teacher' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'european given ancient coin gold' is the wordplay.
'european' becomes 'e' (abbreviation e.g. EU).
'given' says to put letters next to each other.
'ancient coin' becomes 'ducat' (I've seen this before).
'gold' becomes 'or' ('or' is the heraldic name for gold).
'e'+'ducat'+'or'='EDUCATOR'
'for' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for educator that I've seen before include "Pedagogue, teacher" , "Trainer, teacher" , "Teacher, lecturer" , "coach" , "One who teaches others" .)