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Æ19 - Valerian and Gallienus COL (A) - TRO
| Issuer | Mint of Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
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| Weight | 4.46 g |
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| Reverse description | A horse standing or striding to the right occupies the central field, its musculature rendered in the provincial style characteristic of Alexandrian Troas coinage. A tree is depicted to the left of the horse, serving as a secondary design element. The colonial abbreviation COL (A) - TRO, referencing Colonia Alexandria Troas, is distributed in the field around the type. |
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| Reverse lettering | COL (A) - TRO |
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Alexandria Troas held colonial status under Rome from the time of Augustus, and its mint produced bronze coinage intermittently through the imperial period — not as a provincial necessity but as a civic privilege, issuing under the names of emperors who would never visit the site. The joint reign of Valerian and Gallienus, father and son ruling simultaneously from 253, generated a distinctive class of colonial bronzes across Asia Minor that collapsed abruptly when Valerian was captured by Shapur I at the Battle of Edessa in 260, the only Roman emperor taken prisoner by a foreign enemy.