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.
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.