Æ27 - Trajan ΝΕΟΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΠΟΛΕΙΤωΝ ΕΤΟΥϹ ΡΙΖ

The date inscribed on this coin — year 117 of the local Pontic era — anchors it precisely to 111–112 AD, during Trajan's Dacian war interval and just before his Parthian campaign consumed imperial attention eastward. Neoclaudiopolis, a minor civic center in Pontus re-attributed to Galatia for administrative purposes, issued bronze coinage sporadically and in small volumes; surviving examples with legible era dates are genuinely scarce. The city's nomenclature itself records a Claudian foundation or refoundation, though its civic bronze output only becomes archaeologically visible under the Flavians.