Æ28 - Commodus ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ

Nicaea was one of the most prolific municipal mints in Bithynia, issuing bronze coinage continuously across multiple imperial reigns with a civic pride that occasionally bordered on competitive — the city's long-running rivalry with Nicomedia extended even to the frequency and quality of local coin production. Under Commodus, whose reign saw a marked increase in provincial bronze output across Asia Minor, Nicaean issues are relatively well-documented but still underrepresented in major collections outside specialist hoards from the region.

The Bithynian provincial series for Commodus presents attribution challenges; SNG volumes and the von Aulock corpus diverge on several die groupings for this period.