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cn coin 49573

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CN Type 5199 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Adaios (Hellenistic king)  

Date

c. 275-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of bearded Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΔΑΙΟΥ
Design
Club, right.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top left) Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Persons

Authority: Adaios 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
16.3 mm
Weight
4.31 g
Axis
10
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18293914

Provenience: Prokesch-Osten 1875

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Berlin 67

Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen II: Paeonien, Macedonien, die macedonischen Könige bis Perdiccas III., Berlin 1889 p. 91, nr. 9  ❐

Literature

Jurukova, Coins of the ancient Thracians [engl.] Transl. from the Bulgarian Yordanka Youroukova, 1976 p. 83, nr. 117 ❐

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 nr. 1278 ❐

Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum 9 The British Museum 1. The Black Sea, 1993 nr. 328 ❐

Springschitz, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum. Sammlung Dreer, Klagenfurt im Landesmuseum für Kärnten. 3. Thracien, Macedonien, Päonien, Klagenfurt 1990 nr. 193 ❐

Topalov, Contributions to the study of the coinage and history in the lands of Eastern Thrace from the end of the 4th c. BC to the end of the 3rd c. BC, [Sofia] 2001 p. 184, nr. 3.2, pic. 3.2 ❐

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cn coin 49573, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_49573 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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