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Æ22 - Septimius Severus ΝΕΙΚΟΜΗΔΕΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ
| Issuer | Nicomedia (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 193-211 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Nicomedia's designation as ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ — twice neokoros, twice keeper of the imperial cult — was hard won. The city held its first neokorate under Domitian and secured a second under Caracalla or possibly Septimius Severus himself, a status that conferred enormous prestige and commercial advantage over regional rivals, particularly Nicaea, with whom Nicomedia engaged in a prolonged and occasionally bitter civic competition documented in Dio Chrysostom's orations.