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Æ22 - Trebonianus Gallus COL AVG TRO
| Issuer | Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 251-253 |
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| Shape | Round (irregular) |
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| Obverse lettering | CO ALEX TRO (Translation: the colony of Alexandria Troas) |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Alexandria Troas, a Roman colony in the Troad, produced a substantial civic bronze coinage through the mid-third century — unusual for a Greek-speaking region, but explained by the city's formal colonial status, which entitled it to mint Latin-legend bronzes in the Roman provincial tradition. Production appears to have wound down sharply after 253, likely disrupted by the chaos following Gallus's murder and the near-simultaneous deaths of Aemilianus and the opening of Valerian's reign.
The reference IX#476 places this within Bellinger's 1961 corpus of Troas coinage, still the primary scholarly framework for the series.