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Dichalkon
| Issuer | Katane |
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| Year | 216 BC - 206 BC |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Reverse lettering | XII ΚΑΤΑΝΑΙΩΝ |
| Edge | Plain |
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Katane's bronze coinage of this period was struck under Syracusan dominance following the city's submission after the First Punic War, a subordinate status that shaped what denominations were locally produced and for what purposes. The dichalkon circulated in a Sicily increasingly caught between Roman expansion and the final collapse of the Syracusan kingdom under Hieronymus in 215 BC — a political rupture that briefly pushed Syracuse into the Carthaginian camp and brought Roman siege to the entire region.