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Æ14 - Severus Alexander COL AVG TΡO (sic)
| Issuer | Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | IM S(retrograde)EV AΛEXANDRO (sic) (Translation: to Emperor Severus Alexander) |
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| Mintage | ND (222-235) |
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Alexandria Troas, a Roman colony on the Troad coast, produced a substantial and varied civic bronze coinage under Severus Alexander, much of it poorly documented and inconsistently attributed across the major references. The garbled colonial title on this piece — COL AVG TΡO rather than the correct COL AVG TRO — is a genuine die-cutting error, not a later misread, and comparable epigraphic slips appear across the city's third-century output with enough frequency to suggest rapid, low-oversight production. VI#4052 places this among the smaller module issues of the series.