Æ25 - Maximinus ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΕΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ

Nicomedia's title ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΕΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ — "twice neokoros" — records that the city had been granted the right to maintain an imperial cult temple on two separate occasions, a civic honor fiercely competed for among Bithynian cities in the Severan period. The designation was not merely ceremonial; it carried tax privileges and elevated the city's standing in the provincial assize circuit. Nicomedia had held primacy over Nicaea for generations, and local bronze issues under Maximinus Thrax continued to assert that status even as the emperor himself never visited the eastern provinces during his short, militarily consumed reign.