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cn coin 49581

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CN Type 5197 🔍

Coinage
 

Ruler: Adaios (Hellenistic king)  

Date

c. 275-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of Athena, right, wearing Corinthian helmet.
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Reverse
Legend
ΑΔΑΙΟΥ
Design
Owl standing right on spear head.
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Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top left) Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Persons

Authority: Adaios 🔍  

Metrology
Material
bronze 🔍  
Diameter
19 mm
Weight
5.45 g
Axis
12
Owner

Münzkabinett Berlin, Berlin, de ❐

Owner Inventory No.: 18293961

Provenience: Imhoof-Blumer 1900

Reproduction Owner

BBAW, Berlin, [de] ❐

Plaster Cast No: Imh_S.148.20_XXXVI.25

Citation

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 113  ❐

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 236  ❐

Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands 3, 1906 p. 148, nr. 20, pl. 36, pic. 25  ❐

Dimitrov, Novi numizmatični danni za lokaliziraneto i datirovkata na dinasta Adej 3, 1984 p. 17, pic. 2a  ❐

Literature

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 236 ❐

Imhoof-Blumer, Monnaies grecques, Paris 1883 p. 113 ❐

Jurukova, Monetite na Trakijskite plemena i vladeteli, Sofia 1992 p. 269, nr. 118 ❐

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 nr. 385, 528 ❐

Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum 9 The British Museum 1. The Black Sea, 1993 nr. 332 ❐

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cn coin 49581, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_49581 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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