Description: Pontos, Neocaesarea, Severus Alexander (222 - 235 AD). Struck 234/5 (year 171). ΑV Κ Μ ΑV CЄ ΑΛЄΞΑΝΔΡΟC; laureate, draped and cuirassed bust right / MH ΝЄΩΚЄCA DIC ΝЄΩΚO; two tetrastyle temples, prize-urn with two branches above, ЄTPOA in ex.

Diameter: AE27 mm

Weight: 12,72 g

Grade: aVF/aVF

Attribution: RG I, p. 91, 41; Price/Trell, p. 98, fig. 178 var

Commentary: brown patina, good detail

History: In 344 AD the city was completely destroyed by an earthquake.

Article Number: 036-01-01-41652