Coin from Cyrene Showing Silphium Plant (Illustration)

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by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
published on 24 October 2016

Coin from Cyrene Showing Silphium Plant — Many Greek coins showed images of local products. Cyrene was famous for the export of the now-extinct silphium plant. Silver tetradrachm coin. From Cyrene, modern-day Libya. 435-375 BCE. (The British Museum, London).

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