ALEXANDRIA TROAS AE20______Near the Ancient City of Troy_____TYCHE, EAGLE & BULL

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20M43
FRASCATIUS ANCIENTS
A BEAUTIFUL ROMAN PROVINCIAL BRONZE COIN OF ALEXANDRIA TROAS FROM THE 3RD CENTURY AD .
ALEXANDRIA TROAS IS NEAR THE ANCIENT CITY OF TROY, MOTHER CITY OF ROME
ALEXANDRIA WAS NAMED AFTER ALEXANDER THE GREAT
THE SIZE IS 20.3 MM AND 4.30 GRAMS.
Bellinger 490-1
OBVERSE – ALEXA TRO Draped bust of Tyche right, wearing mural crown
REVERSE – COL AVG TRO Eagle standing right on head and neck of bull facing
ALEXANDRIA TROAS
Alexandria Troas was an ancient Greek city of the Troad, situated on the west coast at nearly its middle point, a little south of Tenedos. It was built by Antigonus, perhaps about 310 B.C., and was called by him Antigonia Troas. Early in the next century the name was changed by Lysimachus to Alexandria Troas, in honor of Alexander's memory.
As the chief port of north-west Asia Minor, the place prospered greatly in Roman times, and the existing remains sufficiently attest its former importance. When the Romans had defeated the Seleucid king Antiochus III the Great in the Syrian War, Alexandria Troas was declared "free and autonomous" (188 AD). After all, it was very close to Troy, the town that was believed to have been the mother-city of Rome. Based on Roman texts, Alexandria Troas was visited by Julius Caesar and deemed important enough to be declared a capital city. It flourished under the Romans and, with its environs, was raised by Augustus to be a colonia. It is estimated that the city had a population of 100,000 people in the days of its greatest prosperity.
Alexandria owed its spectacular development to its strategic position, on the Aegean coast near the entrance to the Dardanelles. It meant that Alexandria was a convenient harbor for the transit of goods transported on the route from the east to the port of Neapolis in Macedonia, and further - to Rome. Additional sources of income for the city were salty springs in Larisa, mines, farmland, and the income from the temple of Apollon Smintheion.
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