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Æ17
| Issuer | Tyra |
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| Year | 360 BC - 350 BC |
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| Weight | 4.84 g |
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| Obverse description | Laureate head of Apollo facing right, rendered in archaic Greek provincial style with boldly modelled features. The hair is depicted in thick, stylized waves gathered beneath the wreath. The portrait occupies the central field, with traces of a legend visible to the right margin. |
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| Mint | Tyra |
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Tyra, a Greek colony at the mouth of the Tyras River (modern Dniester), was a minor but commercially active polis caught between the Greek world and the steppe cultures of Scythia. This bronze issue dates to a period when the city was asserting enough civic independence to strike its own coinage — a relatively short window before increasing pressure from neighboring powers curtailed that autonomy. The SNG British Museum Black Sea corpus remains the primary reference for this series, and specimens attributable with confidence to Tyra are scarce in any collection.