Æ26 - Septimius Severus ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ

Nicaea was one of the most productive civic minting centers in Bithynia under Severus, issuing bronze across the full span of his reign as the city leveraged its administrative importance — it had served as the effective capital of Bithynia since at least the first century. Civic bronzes of this region circulated locally as small change, largely invisible to the imperial treasury, which gave municipal authorities unusual latitude in die selection and output.

The V.2 reference places this within Vogt's corpus, the foundational catalog for Bithynian civic coinage, though attribution density across the Severan Nicaean series means die matches frequently surface.