Æ18

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.