Æ24 - Severus Alexander ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΕΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡ

Nicomedia's title ΔΙΣΝΕΩΚΟΡΟΣ — "twice temple warden" — was a hard-won honorific granted by Rome, conferring the right to maintain two imperial cult temples and the prestige, tax privileges, and festival revenues that followed. The city fought bitterly for precedence over Nicaea throughout the Severan period, and coins advertising the neokorate status were explicitly civic propaganda in that rivalry.

Severus Alexander's reign saw a surge in such regional boasting issues across Bithynia.