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Æ25 - Caracalla COL AVG TROA
| Issuer | Mint of Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Emperor Caracalla facing right, rendered in three-quarter view from the front, with the paludamentum fastened at the shoulder. The effigy displays the characteristic youthful features associated with Caracalla's earlier coinage. The encircling Latin legend reads M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG, partially visible around the periphery of the flan. |
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| Obverse lettering | M AVR ANTONINVS PIVS AVG |
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Alexandria Troas was a Roman colony founded under Augustus — hence the COL AVG designation — built on the bones of earlier Antigoneia, which Alexander's successor Antigonus had established near the site of ancient Troy. By Caracalla's reign, the city was prosperous enough to maintain an active civic mint producing a wide range of bronze denominations for local circulation. Caracalla himself visited the Troad and famously staged elaborate ceremonies at the tumulus of Achilles, with whom he had a well-documented personal obsession.