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Didrachm of Selinos with parsley leaf

Greek
Archaic Period
about 540–515 B.C.
Mint: Sicily, Selinos

Medium/Technique Silver
Dimensions Diameter: 23 mm. Weight: 8.48 gm.
Credit Line Catharine Page Perkins Fund
Accession Number00.108
ClassificationsNumismaticsCoins

Catalogue Raisonné Brett, Greek Coins (MFA), no. 0317.
DescriptionObverse: Wild parsley leaf; on either side of stem a globule.
Reverse: Incuse square of ten divisions, some raised, others sunk.
ProvenanceBy date unknown: with Edward Perry Warren; 1900: purchased by MFA from Edward Perry Warren