cn coin 63844
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cn coin 63844

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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
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
20 mm
Weight
5.77 g
Axis
10
Owner

Provenience: Ancient Numismatics Auctions 19 (22.03.2025) 97

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 63844, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/CN_63844 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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