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Æ27 - Severus Alexander ΚΥΖΙΚΗΝΩ ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ?
| Issuer | Cyzicus (Conventus of Cyzicus) |
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| Year | 222-235 |
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| Reference(s) | RPC VI#3754 |
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| Obverse lettering | ΑΥ Κ Μ ΑΥ ϹΕ ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔ (Translation: Emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander) |
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| Mintage | ND (222-235) |
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Cyzicus held the title of neokoros — temple warden of the imperial cult — multiple times over, and the civic pride attached to that status was aggressively advertised on local bronze coinage throughout the Severan period. The legend fragment ΝΕΟΚΟΡΩΝ on this piece almost certainly references that honorific, though the damaged or incomplete rendering has left the exact iteration of the title uncertain enough to warrant the query mark in the reference.
Severus Alexander's reign saw a proliferation of provincial civic issues as local mints reasserted prestige through imperial association. Cyzicus, strategically positioned on the Propontis, had long leveraged its relationship with Rome to accumulate neokorate honors.