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cn coin 49948

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

Authority: Adaios 🔍  

Metrology
Material
Diameter
16 mm
Weight
3.58 g
Axis
3
Owner

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Münzkabinett, Wien, at

Owner Inventory No.: GR 38738

Provenience: Pohl Heinrich 1931

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 49948, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_49948 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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