Tetradrachm

Alexandria Troas — not to be confused with the Macedonian royal issues it superficially resembles — struck these large silver pieces under a civic authority that had been consolidating smaller Troad settlements since Antigonus refounded the city around 310 BC. By the second century BC, the city enjoyed enough autonomy under Pergamene and later Roman oversight to produce its own substantial silver coinage, a privilege many neighboring poleis had already lost. The series ran for the better part of a century, ending as Roman provincial monetary reorganization made large civic silver increasingly redundant across western Asia Minor.