Tetradrachm - Cavarus In the name of Alexander III, Kabyle

Cavarus was the last known king of Tylis, the short-lived Galatian kingdom established in Thrace after Celtic tribes swept through the Balkans and into Anatolia in the early third century BC. His kingdom collapsed around 212 BC when the local Thracian population revolted and destroyed it. These posthumous Alexander-type tetradrachms, struck at Kabyle, were his coinage — a Galatian ruler in Thrace issuing coins in the name of a Macedonian conqueror dead for nearly a century, a compression of three cultures in a single object.