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cn type 20858

Coinage
 

Ruler: Adaios (Hellenistic king)  

Date

c. 275-250 BC

Hellenistic Period 🔍

Obverse
Design
Head of (youthful) 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
Max: 18 mm / Min: 14 mm
Average Weight
4.05 g (13x)
Axes
1 (1x) 5 (1x) 8 (2x) 10 (1x) 12 (1x)
Citation

Sallet, Beschreibung der antiken Münzen II: Paeonien, Macedonien, die macedonischen Könige bis Perdiccas III., Berlin 1889 p. 91, nr. 10-11  ❐

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. 1184-1185  ❐

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cn type 20858, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20858 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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