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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 3624388, member: 99456&quot;]<a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Column_drum_Ephesus.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Column_drum_Ephesus.JPG" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Column_drum_Ephesus.JPG/256px-Column_drum_Ephesus.JPG" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Column_drum_Ephesus.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Column_drum_Ephesus.JPG" rel="nofollow">Column drum from the temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus</a> British Museum</p><p><font size="1"><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0" rel="nofollow">CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons</a></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Although I have no coins to show the BN or B NE in the inscription referring to the twice neocorate - authorized for two temples - status of a city on a Roman Provincial coin, maybe a little more information will help the right coin come forward.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 29 BC Augustus granted Pergamum permission to build a temple to Roma and Augustus, the first of it&#039;s kind.&nbsp;&nbsp; When the emperor and the Roman Senate granted a city permission to build a temple, that city was designated as <i>neokoros</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Being <i>neokoros</i> was an honor that brought status to a city within its province and recognition for having a relationship with Rome.&nbsp; A temple would have value to the economy with visitors bringing money to the city.</p><p><br /></p><p>Although at the time there was no imperial cult temple in Ephesus, the story of Paul and the Riot at Ephesus in <a href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Acts-Chapter-19/#19" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Acts-Chapter-19/#19" rel="nofollow">Acts 19</a> illustrates the economic value of a temple (Artemis/Diana):</p><p><font size="3"><i><font size="2">24</font> For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><i><font size="2">25</font> Whom he called together with the workmen of like occupation, and said, Sirs, ye know that by this craft we have our wealth.</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><i><font size="2">26</font> Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><i><font size="2">27</font> So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><i><font size="2">28</font> And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried out, saying, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.</i></font></p><p><font size="3"><br /></font></p><p><font size="3"><font size="4">An interesting note on Ephesus and the use of Neokoros on this <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1284373" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1284373" rel="nofollow">CNG coin</a> of Nero referencing RPC - shortly after the time of Paul&#039;s visit and the earliest occurrence of this word on coins.</font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="3"><font size="4">Next: still the same &quot;twice neocorate&quot;</font></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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