Æ17 - Commodus ΟΜΗΡΟϹ ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ

Nicaea's civic bronze coinage under Commodus drew heavily on the city's claim to be Homer's birthplace — a distinction also contested by Smyrna, Chios, Colophon, and several others. The competition was civic propaganda in the most literal sense, with cities across the Greek east minting Homer's image precisely to assert that claim against rivals.

The reference to IV.1#5527 places this within the Recueil Général de Monnaies Grecques d'Asie Mineure corpus.