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| Issuer | Alexandreia (Troas) |
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| Year | 261 BC - 227 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Horse grazing right, depicted with naturalistic musculature in a posture of quiet repose with head lowered to the ground. A wreath appears above the horse in the upper field, and a grain ear is placed beneath the animal in the exergue. The ethnic inscription ΑΛΕ appears in the field, serving as an abbreviated reference to the issuing city of Alexandreia Troas. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕ (Translation: `Alexandreia`.) |
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Alexandria Troas was refounded by Antigonus I around 310 BC and substantially reorganized under Lysimachus, who renamed it after Alexandria in Egypt. The city sat at a strategically critical point on the Hellespont approaches, and its bronze coinage of this period circulated locally as the city navigated shifting Seleucid and Pergamene pressures following the collapse of Lysimachean power at Corupedium in 281 BC.