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Æ20 - Valerian and Gallienus COL AVG TROAD
| Issuer | Mint of Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 253-260 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Draped bust of Salonina facing right, her hair elaborately coiffed and adorned with a diadem, wearing a crescent ornament at the shoulder. The effigy is rendered in the provincial style characteristic of the Alexandrian Troas mint, with fine drapery folds visible at the bust truncation. The Latin legend AVR CORN SALONINA runs around the periphery of the field. |
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| Reverse lettering | COL AVG TROAD |
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Alexandria Troas operated its colonial mint with unusual autonomy into the joint reign of Valerian I and Gallienus, one of the last active provincial bronze mints in the region before Gallienus effectively ended the Roman provincial coinage system around 268. The city's colonial status — granted originally under Augustus — gave it the right to strike bronze independently, a privilege it exercised stubbornly long after neighboring mints had gone dark.
The Conventus of Adramyteum was an administrative judicial circuit, not a minting authority; Alexandria Troas simply fell within its boundaries for Roman administrative purposes.