Æ24 - Maximinus ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΕΩΝ (or ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΕΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ)

Nicomedia's title *dis neokoros* — meaning the city had been granted the right to maintain two imperial temples — was awarded in stages, the second honor coming under Caracalla. By Maximinus Thrax's reign, the city was aggressively advertising both neokorate honors on its civic bronze, partly because Maximinus himself never visited the eastern provinces and local elites used coinage to assert their privileged standing without imperial attention.

Maximinus was the first emperor who never set foot in Rome during his reign.