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cn coin 49947

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CN Type 12951 🔍

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
Monogram
Monogram reverse (position: top left) Monogram reverse (position: at the bottom left)
Persons

Authority: Adaios 🔍  

Metrology
Material
Diameter
18 mm
Weight
4.72 g
Axis
4
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at

Owner Inventory No.: GR 9761

Provenience: Welzl von Wellenheim 1875

Literature

Schwabacher, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Copenhagen. The Royal Collection of Coins and Medals. Danish National Museum. Part 7: Thrace 2: Odessus - Sestos. Islands. Kings and Dynasts 7, Copenhagen 1943 nr. 1183

Arslan et al., Antike Münzen von Thrakien und Moesien aus öffentlichen und privaten Sammlungen der Türkei, Berlin-Boston 2021 nr. 907, 1277, 1415

Evelpidis, Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum. Grèce Collection Rèna A. Evelpidis. Athènes, Louvain 1970 nr. 1457

Lindgren, Ancient Greek bronze coins: European mints from the Lindgren collection, San Mateo Calif 1989 p. 63, nr. 1335, pl. 63

Price, Sylloge nummorum Graecorum 9 The British Museum 1. The Black Sea, 1993 nr. 329-330

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. 3.3, pic. 3.3

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cn coin 49947, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_49947 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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