Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Æ24 - Elagabalus COL ALEX AVG
| Issuer | Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
|---|---|
| Year | 218-222 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Log in to see details |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Log in to see details |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | COL ALEX AVG |
| Edge | Log in to see details |
| Mint | Alexandria Troas |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Alexandria Troas was a Roman colonia — not merely a city with colonial status conferred honorifically, but an actual settlement of Roman citizens planted by Augustus, which explains the COL designation carried with unusual authenticity. Under Elagabalus, the city was issuing bronze coinage independently within the Adramyteum conventus, a judicial district of the province of Asia whose constituent cities struck their own civic bronzes throughout the Severan period.
Elagabalus's reign lasted just four years before the Praetorian Guard murdered him at eighteen, dumping his body in the Tiber.