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Æ24 - Caracalla COL ALEXAN AVG

Issuer Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum)
Year 198-217
Type Standard circulation coin
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Obverse lettering ANTONINVS PIVS AV
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Mintage ND (198-217)
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Alexandria Troas held the status of a Roman colony — formally Colonia Alexandria Augusta Troas — a distinction granted under Augustus that gave the city Italian legal standing and the right to produce its own coinage. Caracalla visited the region during his eastern campaigns and is known to have held the city in particular favor, reportedly considering it as a potential new imperial capital before settling on other ambitions.

The conventus of Adramyteum was an administrative judicial district, not a mint authority in the conventional sense, making colonial bronzes from this grouping administratively distinct from the broader Asian provincial output.

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