Æ44 - Caracalla ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ ΤΟ ΠΗ

Laodicea ad Lycum earned the title of neokoros — temple warden of the imperial cult — under Commodus, and retained it jealously through successive reigns. The legend ΤΟ ΠΗ encodes the city's boule-count or era reckoning, a local dating convention still not fully resolved by scholars. Caracalla visited the region during his Anatolian progress of 215–216, and cities along the route seized on his physical presence to strike prestige bronzes of exceptional module, essentially competing in civic display.

At 44 mm, this piece sits at the outer limit of what provincial bronze dies could reliably produce without uneven flow — known to cause characteristic peripheral weakness on the reverse at this diameter.