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| Issuer | Leontini |
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| Year | 207 BC - 200 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Leontini's bronze coinage of this period reflects the city's fraught position during the Second Punic War. Rome sacked the city in 214 BC under Marcellus, purportedly in response to its alliance with Carthage following the Syracusan shift under the young Hieronymus. The coins struck in the years after that event — including this series — represent municipal recovery under Roman oversight, a civic authority permitted to continue issuing bronze for local exchange while silver coinage had effectively ceased.
HGC 2, 721 places this type among the latest autonomous issues from Leontini before the city's absorption into the Roman provincial framework became total.