Didrachm

Selinos — the westernmost Greek colony in Sicily — chose the wild celery plant (selinon) as its civic emblem, a plant so abundant along the local river that the city took its name from it. These early didrachms predate the city's catastrophic destruction by Carthage in 409 BC by over a century, placing them in Selinos's period of maximum prosperity, when it was aggressively expanding its territory at the expense of indigenous Elymian and Sicel populations.

The archaic fabric here is characteristic of early Sicilian mint output — broad, dumpy flans with incuse reverse punches that would give way to the more sophisticated die work of the fifth century.