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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;scottishmoney, post: 2010836, member: 12789&quot;]<b>Tyra - Antoninus Pius AE ca. 40AD</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><img src="http://i1252.photobucket.com/albums/hh578/scottishmoney/tyrasaeantoninuspius_zpsc4b05916.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><p>The ancient city of Tyra resides at the estuary of the Dnistr River in what is now Ukraine - the now known city of Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi covers the ancient city.&nbsp; A few years ago I had the privilege of touring the archaeological digs near the fortress of Akkerman that overlooks the Dnistr River.&nbsp; The city was founded approximately 2,500 years ago and issued coinage practically from the beginning, first as a Greek colony then as a Roman provincial mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>The cool aspect of this coin is that the alphabet is still familiar to that part of the world - instead of the Roman alphabet this coin has the Greek alphabet that Cyrillic was derived from.</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite the long history of Tyra/Akkerman/Cetatae Alba/Belgorod-Dnestrovsky/Bilhorod-Dnistrovskyi coinage from the city is particularly scarce - but a fairly low interest in the coinage makes them affordable - if you can find them.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a museum in the City of Odessa that has numerous examples of this and the Olbian era coinage from what is now southern Ukraine.&nbsp; Unfortunately everytime I have been in Odessa the museum happened to be closed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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