Æ24 - Caracalla COL ALEXA AVG

Alexandria Troas was a Roman colony — Colonia Alexandria Augusta — founded by Antigonus and refounded by Lysimachus before Augustus formalized its colonial status, granting it the ius Italicum. That legal privilege, which exempted colonists from land taxes as if they stood on Italian soil, was a genuine economic distinction, and the city's bronze coinage under Caracalla reflects civic pride in that status rather than any imperial directive to mint.

The conventus of Adramyteum was an assize district, not a city, and coins attributable to it through style and die linkage remain poorly documented in the standard references.