10 Litrai - Hieronymus

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.