Æ29 - Septimius Severus ΤΩΝ ΕΝ ΚΙΛΒΙΑΝΩΝ ΝΕΙΚΑΕΩΝ

Nicaea Cilbianorum was a minor inland city of Lydia — not to be confused with the far more prominent Nicaea in Bithynia — whose coins are scarce precisely because the city itself was small and its civic coinage output limited. The ethnic legend distinguishing it as the Nicaea "of the Cilbiani" reflects a long-standing need to differentiate it from its more famous namesake, a bureaucratic habit that predates the Roman reorganization of the Ephesian conventus.

Provincial issues under Septimius Severus from smaller Lydian centers frequently survive in low numbers, and examples from Nicaea Cilbianorum appear in only a handful of major collections.