Æ25 - Commodus COL AVG TROAD

Alexandria Troas, a Roman colony on the Troad coast, held the rare distinction of ius italicum — a legal status granting its land the same rights as Italian soil, including exemption from provincial land tax. This privilege, confirmed under Hadrian, gave the city both the means and the motivation to maintain an unusually active local bronze coinage well into the Severan period. Commodus was a particularly generous patron of the city's colonial status, and issues bearing his name cluster noticeably during the middle years of his reign.