Tyra in Sarmatia, 180-192 AD., Commodus, Æ 4 assaria, Zograph 59.

Tyra in Sarmatia, Commodus, 180-192 AD.,
Æ 4 assaria (20-21 mm / 5,77 g),
Obv.: AYT K AE - LI KOMOΔOC , laureate, draped bust of Commodus right.
Rev.: TYP-ANΩN / Δ , Tyche(?) seated left on rocks, holding patera, value mark Δ in ex.
Zograph, Tyra 89, 59 pl. V, 9 ; Mion. S. II, 29, 120 .

Tyra was a Milesian colony on the river Tyras (today river Dnister/Ukraina, russ. Dnjestr) - at the Northern Black Sea coast, about twenty miles from its mouth. The earliest autonomous coins seem to belong to the second or first century B.C. Coins were also struck at Tyra in the name of Lysimachus, and there are Imperial coins from Domitian to Julia Mamaea.