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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |North Africa| > |Kyrenaica| > SH70797
Kyrene, Kyrenaica, North Africa, c. 322 - 308 B.C.
|Kyrenaica|, |Kyrene,| |Kyrenaica,| |North| |Africa,| |c.| |322| |-| |308| |B.C.|, Silphium grew only in Kyrenaica and most coins of the region, including this one, depict it. The stalk was eaten as a vegetable. Parts of the plant were used to treat all kinds of maladies including cough, sore throat, fever, indigestion, pain, and warts. The fruit was considered both an aphrodisiac and a contraceptive, and was worth its weight in denarii. Unfortunately, we will never know if its medicinal properties were real or imagined because the plant became extinct in the first century A.D. It's said that Nero ate the last plant.
SH70797. Bronze AE 23, cf. BMC Cyrenaica 175, SNG Cop 1216, Müller Afrique 224, SNG Milan -, F, rough, red earthen deposits, tight flan, reverse off center, Kyrene (near Shahhat, Libya) mint, weight 12.396g, maximum diameter 22.6mm, die axis 180o, c. 322 - 308 B.C.; obverse head of Karneios right, with horn of Ammon and short curly hair, magistrate's name (ANΔP?) below; reverse silphium plant, K-Y (obscure, possibly retrograde) flanking across field; very rare; SOLD



  






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