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| Issuer | Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 251-253 |
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| Weight | 7.26 g |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Alexandria Troas had held colonial status since Augustus refounded the city, and its mint remained active well into the third century partly because the colony's privileged position — including the ius Italicum — gave local magistrates both the means and the motivation to produce civic bronze. Trebonianus Gallus reached the throne after Decius and his son Hostilian both died in 251, Decius killed fighting the Goths at Abritus in one of the more catastrophic Roman military defeats of the century. The colonial mint struck through his two-year reign before the series ended with his murder in 253.