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5 Litrai - Hieronymus
| Issuer | Syracuse |
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| Year | 215 BC - 214 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse lettering | BAΣIΛEOΣ IEPΩNYMOY |
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| Mint | Syracuse Mint |
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Hieronymus ruled Syracuse for barely fifteen months before his assassination in 214 BC, making his coinage among the most chronologically compressed of any Sicilian tyrant. He had abandoned his grandfather Hiero II's long alliance with Rome in favor of Carthage — a pivot made as Hannibal's victories after Cannae made that bet look shrewd, though Hieronymus did not live to see it play out. The surviving die varieties catalogued across SNG ANS, Lloyd, and Munich suggest a mint working under genuine urgency, not ceremonial ambition.