Æ28 - Elagabalus ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΕΩΝ ΤΡΙϹ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ

Nicomedia held the title of "three-time neokoros" — meaning the city had been granted the honor of maintaining an imperial cult temple on three separate occasions — and fiercely advertised this distinction on its civic bronze throughout Elagabalus's reign. The competition between Bithynian cities for neokoros titles was openly political, with Nicaea and Nicomedia locked in a decades-long rivalry over precedence that occasionally spilled into formal disputes adjudicated at Rome.

Elagabalus confirmed Nicomedia's third neokorate, likely as a continuation of Caracallan policy rather than any particular favor toward the city.