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Æ23 - Caracalla COL ALEX (N) AVG
| Issuer | Mint of Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Weight | 7.28 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The Lupa Romana, the she-wolf of Rome, depicted standing left with head turned right, nursing the infant twins Romulus and Remus who crouch beneath her. The scene is presented on a ground line, evoking the founding legend of Rome and underscoring the colonial status of Alexandria Troas as a Roman colonia. The legend is distributed around the periphery in Latin characters, partially visible due to the irregular flan. The bold, high-relief rendering of the wolf typifies the civic pride expressed through coinage by Roman colonies in Asia Minor. |
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Alexandria Troas was a Roman colony — Colonia Alexandrea Augusta — founded under Augustus on the site of Antigoneia, itself established by Antigonus I after the Wars of the Diadochi. Its colonial status gave it the right to issue autonomous bronze coinage using Latin legends, unusual for a mint operating in a predominantly Greek-speaking region of Asia Minor. Under Caracalla, the colony maintained this privilege even as his Constitutio Antoniniana of 212 AD extended citizenship across the empire, a legal shift that paradoxically reduced the administrative distinctiveness such colonial mints had long traded on.