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Æ26 - Severus Alexander ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ
| Issuer | Nicaea (Bithynia and Pontus) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VI#3144 |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Reverse description | Nike, the personification of victory, depicted standing facing with head turned to the left, her winged figure rendered in flowing drapery typical of Hellenistic artistic convention. She holds a victor's wreath in her extended right hand and a long palm branch in her left. The civic ethnic legend of Nicaea encircles the type in the field. The reverse exhibits the characteristic broad, flat strike of Bithynian provincial bronze coinage. |
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Nicaea was one of the most prolific civic minting authorities in Bithynia, and issues under Severus Alexander reflect the city's sustained effort to advertise its status as a major urban center during a reign that otherwise saw relatively stable provincial administration. The city's rivalry with neighboring Nicomedia — both vying for the title of regional primacy — played out partly through the volume and ambition of their bronze civic coinage.
Severus Alexander's thirteen-year reign is among the longer ones represented in Bithynian civic bronze, which is why die variety proliferation across ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ issues from this period is substantial.