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Æ Roman rule
| Issuer | Syracuse (Sicily) |
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| Year | 212 BC |
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| Diameter | 13.5 mm |
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| Reverse lettering | ΣYPAKOΣIΩN (Translation: Syracuse) |
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| Mint | Syracuse |
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212 BC is the year Rome sacked Syracuse after a two-year siege, ending the city's independence permanently. Archimedes died during the fall. Coins minted in that final period of Syracusan autonomy — or immediately after, under the new Roman administration — occupy an ambiguous transitional moment that catalogers have argued over for generations, with CNS 222 sitting precisely in that contested zone between the last civic issues and early Roman provincial production.