Uncertain mint, Adaios, bronze coin — Club (CN type 20858)
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
c. 275–250 BC
Issuing entity
ThraceCoin in bronze under Adaios, dated c. 275–250 BC. Corpus Nummorum, the online type corpus of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, records it as CN type 20858 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: ruler).
Obverse: Head of (youthful) Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: Club, right. Legend: ΑΔΑΙΟΥ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 4.05 g (mean of 13 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 14–18 mm (from 12 recorded specimens). Recorded findspots: Maroneia. Published references cited by the corpus: 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.
Evidence at a glance
- Linked sources
- 3
- Photograph views
- 1
- Catalogue references
- 2
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Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 14–18 mm (from 12 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 4.05 g (mean of 13 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Authority type
- Ruler
- Issuing authority
- Adaios
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of (youthful) Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
- Reverse type
- Club, right.
- Reverse legend
- ΑΔΑΙΟΥ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- How to identify
- Check the mint name or ethnic, the reverse type and the legend together, then compare weight and module; types from the same mint often differ only in legend arrangement, magistrate names or control marks.
- Recorded findspots
- Maroneia
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20858
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20858
Documentation checklist
- Denomination
- Research required
- Issue or mint date
- Recorded
- Material
- Recorded
- Weight
- Recorded
- Mint or printer
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- Mint or printer mark
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- Catalogue reference
- Recorded
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- Recorded
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Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 91, nr. 10-11
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 1184-1185
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