Æ32 - Elagabalus ΙΕΡΑΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΟΝ (sic)

Hierapolis in Phrygia — not to be confused with the Syrian city of the same name — held the title of neokoros, meaning it maintained an imperially sanctioned temple cult, a distinction cities competed for bitterly through embassies and substantial expenditure. The misspelling ΝΕΩΚΟΡΟΝ for the expected ΝΕΩΚΟΡΟΣ on this issue is not a modern cataloger's note but an actual die-cutter's error, preserved in bronze and apparently approved for circulation regardless.

Elagabalus's reign lasted just four years before the Praetorian Guard murdered him at eighteen.