Didrachm

Selinos — the westernmost Greek polis in Sicily — occupied an uneasy position between Carthaginian territory to the west and the expanding power of Syracuse to the east. The city's prosperity in this period rested largely on its agricultural hinterland and its port, and coinage of this weight class circulated through both local markets and broader Sicilian trade networks. Selinos was ultimately destroyed by Carthage in 409 BC, making any issue from before that date a product of a city that would not survive another century.