Drachm - Gelo II

Gelon II was the son of Hiero II and held nominal co-regency in Syracuse during the final years before the city's catastrophic entanglement in the Second Punic War. He died in 216 BC, almost certainly by poison, before the crisis fully matured — leaving his young son Hieronymus to inherit the throne and, within months, defect to Hannibal following Rome's disaster at Cannae. This drachm belongs to the narrow window of that co-regency, struck while Syracuse still maintained its cautious neutrality between Carthage and Rome.