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cn type 5200

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: 18 mm / Min: 16.4 mm
Average Weight
3.66 g (8x)
Axes
1 (1x) 4 (1x) 5 (2x) 9 (1x) 10 (1x)
Citation

Hoover, Handbook of coins of Macedon and its neighbors. Part II: Thrace, Skythia, and Taurike: sixth to first centuries BC, Lancaster, Pa. London 2017 p. 229, nr. 1765  ❐

Stancomb, The William Stancomb collection of coins of the Black Sea region, 2000 nr. 298  ❐

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cn type 5200, in: Corpus Nummorum, https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/en/types/5200 [Last downloaded: 2026/03/20]

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