SICILY. Selinus. Ca. 540-480 BC. AR didrachm (22mm, 9.02 gm). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 4/5. Ca. 540-515 BC. Wild parsley (selinon) leaf / Incuse square composed of twelve triangles. HGC 2, 1211. Ex Den of Antiquity, private sale with old dealer's tag included. Situated on a vast plateau in southwestern Sicily, Selinus was founded in the late seventh century BC by Dorian colonists from Megara in mainland Greece. Named after a river god, Selinus was one of the earliest Sicilian cities to embrace the invention of coinage. Its first coins, struck on the Corinthian standard in circa 540 BC, bore a selinon (celery) leaf as a canting pun on the city name. HID09801242017 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved

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