Silver Tetradrachm, Ancient Phoenecia - Arados, c. 2nd - 1st Century BC.
Obv: Turreted head of Tyche, right.
Rev: Nike standing left.
Ref: Sear-G5992 (26mm, 14.81gm)
Tyche (meaning "luck"; Roman equivalent: Fortuna) was the presiding tutelary deity that governed the fortune and prosperity of a city, its destiny. She is the daughter of Aphrodite and Zeus or Hermes.
Increasingly during the Hellenistic period, cities venerated their own specific iconic version of Tyche, wearing a mural crown (a crown like the walls of the city).
The Greek historian Polybius believed that when no cause can be discovered to events such as floods, droughts, frosts or even in politics, then the cause of these events may be fairly attributed to Tyche.
