People at the time believed if a woman ate silphium she wouldn't get pregnant.

当时人们相信，如果一个女人吃了 silphium，她就不会怀孕。

Coins from Cyrene, in what is now Libya, carry the familiar emblem, representing silphium, a now-extinct plant used as a cooking spice, perfume, aphrodisiac, and… contraceptive.

赛勒内（今利比亚境内 ）硬币上印有人们熟悉，象着，一种现已灭绝植物，用作烹饪香料、香、春药和… … 避孕药。

You see, way back in ancient times a Greek city in northern Africa became very wealthy selling a super rare plant called a silphium.

在古代，北非一个希腊城市因为出售一种叫做 silphium 超级稀有植物变得非常富有。

The plant was so key to the city's economy that they minted their coins with the image of a silphium seed pod which looks a lot like the heart shape.

这种植物对这座城市经济非常重要，以至于他们铸造硬币上有一个看起来很像心形 silphium 种子荚形象。