Trichalkon

Tauromenion — modern Taormina — enjoyed an unusual degree of autonomy during the Second Punic War, navigating carefully between Roman authority and the chaos engulfing Sicily after Hieronymus of Syracuse broke with Rome in 215 BC. This small bronze issue falls within that turbulent window, when many Sicilian mints were operating intermittently or under pressure. The CNS attribution places it firmly within a civic bronze series that continued even as Roman consolidation of the island tightened through the early decades of the second century.