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Tyndaris was one of the last cities in Sicily to hold out against Rome during the Second Punic War, switching allegiance to Carthage alongside Syracuse after Hannibal's victory at Lake Trasimene in 217 BC. Roman forces under Marcellus retook the city by 211 BC, effectively ending its independent minting authority. This bronze was struck in the narrow window when the city still operated as an autonomous — if increasingly pressured — community, making the civic coinage of this period a direct artifact of Sicily's last contested years before full Roman provincial absorption.