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| Issuer | Tauromenion |
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| Year | 211 BC - 1 BC |
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| Currency | Litra |
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| Reverse lettering | TAYPOMENITAN |
| Edge | Plain |
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Tauromenion — modern Taormina on Sicily's northeastern coast — operated with unusual civic autonomy through much of the late Hellenistic period, striking its own bronze even as Roman influence tightened across the island following the conclusion of the Second Punic War. The city had shifted allegiances shrewdly during that conflict, which likely preserved its minting privileges longer than many Sicilian neighbors enjoyed.
The two-century attribution window reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty about precise issue dates within the civic bronze series, not editorial laziness. CNS sequencing places this type relatively late in the Tauromenion sequence.