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Æ18
| Issuer | Alexandreia (Troas) |
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| Year | 65 BC - 48 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Apollo Smintheus facing left, depicted nude and striding, holding a patera in the outstretched right hand and a strung bow in the left; the deity stands upon a ground line. A Greek legend is disposed in two columns flanking the central figure, reading ΑΛΕΞ to the right and ΑΝΔΡΕ to the left, with additional lettering in the exergue, consistent with the civic coinage of Alexandreia Troas. |
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| Reverse lettering | ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΕΩΝ |
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Alexandria Troas was a Macedonian foundation on the northwest Anatolian coast that passed through Seleucid and then Attalid hands before Rome inherited it with the rest of Pergamon's kingdom in 133 BC. During the period this coin was struck, the city held special status as a Roman colonia — one of the few such designations in the Greek East at the time — which gave it unusual civic autonomy and the right to mint bronze independently. The reference to Bellinger's A177 places it within a tightly sequenced local series documented through his 1961 *Troy* monograph, still the primary typological authority for the mint.