Æ29 - Macrinus ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ

Macrinus ruled for just fourteen months before being defeated by the forces of Elagabalus at the Battle of Antioch in June 218 — making any provincial bronze struck in his name inherently short-dated. Nicaea, one of the most prolific civic minting authorities in Bithynia, produced a relatively narrow corpus under his name compared to neighboring Nicomedia, which complicates die-linking studies for this reign.

The city's designation ΝΙΚΑΙΕΩΝ reflects Nicaea's civic pride and ongoing rivalry with Nicomedia over which city held primacy in the province.