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10 Litrai - Hieronymus
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 215 BC - 214 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
| Reverse lettering | ΒΑΣΙΛΕΟΣ ΙΕΡΩΝΥΜΟΥ |
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Hieronymus ruled Syracuse for barely fourteen months before his assassination in 214 BC, making his coinage among the briefest civic issues in Sicilian Greek history. He had abandoned the pro-Roman policy of his grandfather Hiero II almost immediately upon taking power, pivoting toward Carthage just as Hannibal's Italian campaign was cresting after Cannae. The mint output was necessarily small — there simply wasn't time for more.