Æ22 ΚΕ ΦΑ

Cephaloedium — modern Cefalù on Sicily's northern coast — was a Siculo-Punic settlement that had passed through Carthaginian and then Roman hands by the time this coin was struck. The magistrate abbreviations ΚΕ ΦΑ identify the issuing officials, a practice the city maintained well into the late Republican period even as Roman administrative control tightened across the island following the First Sicilian Slave War's aftermath. Sicily's civic bronzes from this window are frequently underrepresented in major collections, partly because the island's coinage was largely supplanted by Roman currency before Augustus formally reorganized provincial issues.