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cn coin 49578

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CN Type 5200 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Adaios (Hellenistic king)  

Date

c. 275-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

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

Authority: Adaios 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
17 mm
Weight
3.94 g
Axis
4
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18293943

Provenience: Löbbecke 1906

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Berlin 72

Citation

Dimitrov, Frappes dynastiques en Thrace au début de l'époque hellénistique. Ateliers et production, Louvain-La-Neuve 1987 pl. I, pic. 2  ❐

Dimitrov, Studies of the numismatic material found at Seuthopolis: problems, research methods and basic conclusions 32, 1987 pl. 1, pic. 15  ❐

Literature

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 229, nr. 1765 ❐

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 298 ❐

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cn coin 49578, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_49578 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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