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| Issuer | Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 251-253 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | IMP C VIBI AFINI OLVSSIANV |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alexandria Troas held the rare distinction of being a Roman colony in the Greek East, a status granted by Augustus and later reinforced by Caracalla, which explains the COL AVG abbreviation marking its coins as products of a Latin-chartered city surrounded by Greek civic issues. Under Trebonianus Gallus, the city's mint remained active despite his reign being consumed almost entirely by plague — the Antonine Plague's successor, likely smallpox, which Gallus was accused of prolonging by paying tribute to the Goths rather than funding military campaigns to contain their movements.