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Æ24 - Trebonianus Gallus COL AVGO TROA
| Issuer | Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 251-253 |
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| Diameter | 24 mm |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | COL AVGO TROA (Translation: The Augustan colony of Troas (Alexandria)) |
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Alexandria Troas held the status of a Roman colony — Colonia Alexandria Augusta Troas — and retained the rare privilege of striking its own bronze coinage well into the third century, long after most eastern civic mints had gone silent. Under Trebonianus Gallus, whose reign lasted barely two years before he was killed by his own troops, the city continued issuing prolifically, suggesting the local colonial administration functioned with considerable autonomy regardless of who held the purple in Rome.