Æ26 - Gordian III ΝΕΩΚΟΡ ΚΥΖΙΚΗ

Cyzicus held the title of neokoros — temple warden of the imperial cult — multiple times over, and the city leveraged that status aggressively on its civic bronze. The ΝΕΩΚΟΡ ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩΝ legend advertises that standing directly, a form of civic boosterism common among competing Greek poleis of the Asian conventus during the Severan and post-Severan period, each city jostling for prestige and the economic benefits that came with hosting imperial cult worship.

Gordian III's reign, though brief, generated substantial provincial bronze output across Mysia. The VII.1#21 reference places this within the standard Cyzicus civic series catalogued by the Coin Provincial Romans project.