Septimius Severus AE14 from Nicaea in Bithynia.  
Two-handled vase containing two palm branches.  

Not in RecGen, von Aulock, Lindgren, Winsemann, 
Falghera or Righetti.
A similar vase but empty and with a palm branch in the exergue is labeled 
"The Sacred Contest" on a coin of Commodus at Nicaea, RecGEn, Plate LXXV, #14.  

Crowded flan with letters squished together.  see RecGen
p. 460, #489 for the same reverse but on a coin of 
Caracalla (Plate LXXIX, #29).  

If such a vase never occurs in connection with an 
explicit agonistic legend, I would not consider it an agonistic type; although if it has palms emerging 
from it, then it may be.  

1.59 grams, 14mm.

Contributed by John Noory, August, 2003.