The civic year ΡΞΓ (163) in Neocaesarea's local Pontic era corresponds to 226–227 AD, placing this issue squarely within Severus Alexander's reign — a period during which the city was actively leveraging its double neokorate status as a mark of prestige and a tool for negotiating favor with the imperial court. Neocaesarea held the distinction of being twice crowned as a center of imperial cult, and the city made certain that both titles appeared on its coinage with conspicuous regularity.
The civic year ΡΞΓ (163) in Neocaesarea's local Pontic era corresponds to 226–227 AD, placing this issue squarely within Severus Alexander's reign — a period during which the city was actively leveraging its double neokorate status as a mark of prestige and a tool for negotiating favor with the imperial court. Neocaesarea held the distinction of being twice crowned as a center of imperial cult, and the city made certain that both titles appeared on its coinage with conspicuous regularity.