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Æ21

Issuer Syracuse
Year 212 BC - 210 BC
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Currency Litra
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Obverse script Greek
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Syracuse fell to Rome in 212 BC after a two-year siege that killed Archimedes and ended the city's long independence. Bronze coinage continued briefly under Roman occupation before Syracuse was fully absorbed into the provincial system, making issues from this narrow window transitional in the strictest sense — struck by a city that no longer governed itself. The BMC 690 / CNS 234–235 attribution places this piece squarely in that terminal phase of Syracusan civic minting.

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