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Æ25 - Caracalla COL AVG TROAD
| Issuer | Mint of Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 198-217 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of the emperor Caracalla facing right, depicted from the rear in three-quarter view, with the paludamentum visible over the left shoulder and the cuirass articulated beneath. The effigy displays a youthful bearded portrait characteristic of Caracalla's early reign iconography. A Latin legend encircles the bust in the field. |
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| Reverse description | A horse grazes to the right in the central field, its head lowered toward the ground, beneath a tree positioned at left whose foliage extends into the upper field. Behind the horse, a herdsman identified as Ordes stands to the right, holding a pedum (shepherd's crook) in his hand. The colonial legend is disposed around the type, referencing the Colonia Augusta Troas. This pastoral scene is characteristic of the civic bronze coinage of Alexandria Troas and alludes to the city's famous wild horse herds sacred to Apollo. |
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Alexandria Troas was a Roman colony — Colonia Alexandria Augusta Troadensis — planted on the Aegean coast partly to anchor Roman authority over a region with deep Hellenic memory. The city's colonial bronze coinage, of which this is an example, was struck under local civic authority rather than imperial command, with designs and types selected by the city itself. Caracalla's reign saw renewed prestige for the mint; he reportedly considered relocating the eastern capital there before his assassination in 217.