cn type 20859
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cn type 20859

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
Upright club.
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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: 17 mm / Min: 16 mm
Average Weight
3.47 g (6x)
Axes
2 (1x) 7 (1x) 11 (1x)
Citation

Gaebler, Die antiken Münzen Nord-Griechenlands 3, 1906 p. 147, nr. 19, pl. 36, pic. 24  ❐

Peter, Die Münzen der thrakischen Dynasten (5. - 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr.): Hintergründe ihrer Prägung, Berlin 1997 p. 237  ❐

Lischine, Collection C. N. Lischine, Monnaies greques. Thrace, Macon 1902, 1902 p. 159, nr. 1480, pl. 23  ❐

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. 185, nr. 4.1, pic. 4.1  ❐

Topalov, Drevna Trakija. Sbornik proučvanija, svărzani s trakijskoto plemenno, vladetesko i gradsko monetosečene VI-I v. pr. n.e., Sofija 2012 p. 280, nr. 28, pic. 28  ❐

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cn type 20859, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/20859 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/21]

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