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Æ25 - Maximinus COL AVG TROA
| Issuer | Alexandria Troas (Conventus of Adramyteum) |
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| Year | 235-238 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A horse advancing to the right with head lowered in a grazing posture, depicted in sturdy provincial style above a ground line. The animal is rendered with good relief, its musculature visible despite the wear of circulation. The colonial legend is divided around the type, with COL AVG appearing in the upper field above the horse and TROA inscribed in the exergue below the ground line, referencing the Augustan colony of Alexandria Troas. |
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Maximinus Thrax never set foot in Alexandria Troas — he spent his entire reign on campaign or in transit between Rhine, Danube, and ultimately his failed siege of Aquileia, where his own troops killed him in 238. Provincial mints like this one issued bronze coinage largely on local initiative, and the colony's status as Colonia Augusta Troas, granted under Augustus, gave civic authorities both the prestige and the administrative apparatus to do so. The reference to COL AVG TROA on this issue is the colony asserting that standing during a reign defined entirely by military emergency.