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Æ16 - Commodus ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 177-192 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Demeter advancing to the right, depicted in chiton and himation, holding a lighted torch in each outstretched hand. The goddess is rendered in a striding posture with drapery indicated in low relief. The ethnic legend ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ is disposed around the field, identifying the issuing city of Nicaea in Bithynia. The reverse type reflects the importance of Demeter's cult in the civic religious life of Nicaea. |
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Nicaea's civic bronze issues under Commodus belong to a period when Bithynian cities were actively competing for imperial honorifics — Nicaea and Nicomedia fought bitterly over the title of "first city" of the province, a rivalry prosecuted through embassies, legal challenges, and conspicuous loyalty demonstrated partly through coinage bearing the emperor's name.