2nd Punic War - which sword?

[Duncan Head]

So I come back to the use of the xiphos or longer LaTene sword.... :?

Difficult. There are those currency bars with the xiphos-style sword on them - Sekunda illustrates one in the Early Roman Armies Osprey - but AFAIK those are still dated to the early C3rd, before the First Punic War. The "least change" thesis would suggest that the same style was still in use rather than proposing a third type intermediate between xiphos and hispaniensis.