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Didrachm
| Issuer | Selinos |
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| Year | 540 BC - 510 BC |
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| Weight | 8.89 g |
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| Obverse description | Centrally positioned selinon (wild parsley) leaf rendered in high relief, with clearly delineated midrib and symmetrically branching lateral veins extending to the coin's periphery. The naturalistic leaf motif serves as the civic badge of Selinous, a Sicilian Greek colony whose very name derives from the selinon plant. The design fills the broad, slightly convex flan in an archaic Sicilian style characteristic of the late sixth century BC. |
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| Mint | Selinous (Selinus), Sicily |
| Mintage | ND (540 BC - 510 BC) |
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