Æ27 - Caracalla ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΕΩΝ ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ

Nicomedia held the neokorate twice by the time this coin was struck — the title ΔΙΚΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ (rendered here as ΔΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ) advertising the city's status as twice-honored keeper of an imperial cult temple. The second neokorate was granted under Caracalla himself, which dates the specific use of this legend to his reign rather than the broader joint period with Septimius Severus. Civic bronze of this type functioned as local currency circulating through the markets of one of the most commercially active ports on the Propontis.