Sarmatia, Tyras, Antoninus Pius SNG Copenhagen 117
Antoninus Pius AD 138-161
AE 16, 2.54g
obv. AVT ANTONINON [CEB]
bust, laureate, r.
rev. [T]YRA - N - WN
Herakles, nude, stg. frontal, head r, resting with r. hand on club, holding lion-skin over 
outstretched l. arm and apples of the Hesperids in l. hand.
SNG Copenhagen 117; AMNG I/1, pl.XII, 25; RPC IV Online 3672 (temp.)
rare, about VF, darkgreen patina

Tyras was a Milesian colony at the mouth of the river Tyras (today river Dnister/Ukraina, russ. Dnjestr) at the Northern Black Sea coast.


Contributed by Hans-Joachim, October, 2006.