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Æ22 Tyche, eagle
| Issuer | Alexandria Troas |
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| Year | 200-268 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse description | Turreted and draped bust of Tyche facing right, wearing a mural crown, with curled hair visible beneath. The bust is rendered in a provincial style characteristic of the Alexandrian Troas mint. A circular Latin legend surrounds the bust within the coin's field. The portrait is bold in relief despite the irregular flan, exhibiting the typical workmanship of third-century colonial bronze coinage. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Alexandria Troas, a Roman colony in the northwest Troad, operated its mint with unusual persistence through the third century, continuing to strike civic bronze long after most Asian cities had abandoned local coinage under pressure from the Severan and later imperial administrations. The city's colonial status — formally Colonia Alexandria Augusta Troas — gave it the right to strike in Latin rather than Greek, a distinction visible across the entire civic series.
The broad date range reflects genuine uncertainty: third-century provincial bronzes from this mint are notoriously difficult to sequence without accompanying imperial obverses to anchor them.