Æ44 - Caracalla ΕΠΙ Λ ΑΙΛ ΠΙΓΡΗΤΟϹ ΑϹΙΑΡΧΟΥ Γ, ΛΑΟΔΙΚΕΩΝ ΝΕΩΚΟΡΩΝ

Laodicea ad Lycum held the title of neokoros — official keeper of an imperial cult temple — and this issue advertises that status directly, a distinction the city pursued aggressively during the Severan period as civic competition for imperial favor among Anatolian cities intensified. The magistrate named in the legend, L. Aelius Pigrês, held the asiarchate, the most prestigious religious office in the province of Asia, and his third tenure in that role is specified — an unusual precision that suggests deliberate commemoration of his service rather than routine administrative notation.