Æ24 - Commodus COL AVG TROAD

Alexandria Troas was a Roman colony — Colonia Augusta Troadensis — and its civic coinage operated with unusual autonomy for a provincial mint, using Latin legends at a time when most eastern provincial issues had long defaulted to Greek. The city's colonial status, granted under Augustus, is what drives that distinction. Commodus issued no extraordinary edicts affecting Troas specifically, but his reign saw a general expansion of provincial bronze production as silver coinage was progressively debased under central pressure.

The conventus of Adramyteum administered a stretch of the Troad coastline with deep Hellenistic roots, and Alexandria Troas itself sat on the ruins of Antigoneia, refounded by Lysimachus before Augustus resettled it with veterans.