Æ30 - Severus Alexander ϹΜΥΡΝΑΙΩΝ Γ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ ΕΠ Ϲ Γ Κ ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥϹ

Smyrna held the title of neokoros — official keeper of an imperial cult temple — three times over by the Severan period, a distinction fiercely contested among the great cities of Asia Minor and periodically revoked or reconfirmed by the Senate in Rome. The magistrate name preserved in the legend, Diogenes, helps anchor this issue within the city's civic administrative sequence, though his precise tenure within Alexander's reign remains unresolved in the epigraphic record.