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Æ20 - Severus Alexander ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΕΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
| Issuer | Nicomedia (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Weight | 4.31 g |
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| Reverse description | Athena, the civic goddess, stands facing with head turned to the left, clad in full divine panoply. She extends a patera in her right hand and holds an upright spear in her left; a large round shield rests against her side in the field behind her. The encircling legend proclaims the neocorate status of Nicomedia. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nicomedia's title ΔΙΚΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ — "twice temple-warden" — was formally granted by Rome and fiercely contested among rival Bithynian cities, particularly Nicaea, which waged an unrelenting propaganda campaign to claim equal or superior status. The neokorate honor conferred the right to maintain an imperial cult temple and mattered enormously to civic prestige and the flow of festival revenue. Nicomedia held the title from at least the reign of Vespasian, adding its second wardenship under Caracalla.