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

Legend

ΑΔΑΙΟΥ

Design

Club, right.
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Monogram

(position: top left) Monogram reverse

(position: at the bottom left)

Persons

Authority: Adaios 🔍

Metrology

Material

bronze 🔍

Diameter

Max: 19.8 mm / Min: 16 mm

Average Weight

4.15 g (56x)

Axes

1 (1x) 3 (2x) 4 (1x) 5 (1x) 6 (1x) 7 (2x) 8 (3x) 9 (3x) 10 (1x) 11 (1x)

Citation

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 ❐

Cite this record:

cn type 5199, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5199 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]