Æ24 - Caracalla COL ALEXAND AVG

Alexandria Troas held the status of a Roman colonia — likely formalized under Augustus, with the title reinforced under later emperors — which granted it the right to strike autonomous bronze coinage using colonial formulae. Caracalla's reign saw renewed imperial attention to the Troad region, partly due to his well-documented obsession with Alexander the Great, whose legendary associations with the area made it politically expedient to favor the city.

The conventus of Adramyteum administered a stretch of the northwest Anatolian coast where Alexandria Troas functioned as the dominant port, and colonial bronzes from this mint show considerable die-link complexity across the Severan period.