Æ24 - Elagabalus COL ALEX AVG

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.