Triton XVI, Lot: 88. Estimate $200. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SKYTHIA, Tyra. Augustus. 27 BC–AD 14. Æ (24mm, 8.30 g, 8h). [K]AICAPOC [CЄ]BACTO[Y], laureate head left / TYPA-NωN, eagle standing right, wings spread. Anokhin 61 (Vespasian); Zograph, Tyra –; RPC Supp. 2, S2-I-1947B; SNG Pushkin –; SNG Stancomb –; Sutzu II –. VF, dark green and red-brown patina, smoothed. Very rare.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.

Tyra’s civic coinage comes to an abrupt end following the defeat of Mithradates VI of Pontos in 63 BC. Shortly thereafter, the Getai, under Burebista, devastated the region in a series of raids. Tyra was sacked and largely destroyed during one of the incursions, and was not substantially rebuilt until early Roman times, at which time its coinage resumed.