Æ22 - Pseudo-Autonomous ΠΕΡΙΝΘΙΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ

Perinthus earned its first neokorate — the honorific title granted to cities that maintained an imperial cult temple — under Septimius Severus, and a second sometime in the Severan period, likely under Caracalla. The title "Dis Neokoros" advertised both grants simultaneously, a civic status Perinthus guarded jealously against rival Thracian cities, particularly Byzantium, with whom it competed for Roman favor along the western Propontis.

Pseudo-autonomous issues like this one were produced without an emperor's portrait, a deliberate choice that extended the coin's usability across reign changes.