Æ27 - Nero ΝΕΙΚΗ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ

Nicomedia had been the administrative capital of Bithynia since the Hellenistic period and retained fierce civic pride under Roman rule, expressed partly through the right to strike local bronze coinage. The ΝΕΙΚΗ ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ reverse — "Imperial Victory" — almost certainly references Nero's Armenian settlement of 63 AD, when Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo's campaigns forced a diplomatic resolution that Rome propagandized as a military triumph, despite the compromise at Rhandeia.