Adaios, bronze (CN type 20858)
DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.
Record status
Individual type · research required
Period
ca. 275-250 v. Chr.
Coin type in bronze under Adaios dated ca. 275-250 v. Chr., catalogued as Corpus Nummorum type 20858. Obverse: Head of (youthful) Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: Club, right.
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
- 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
- Documented
- Material
- Documented
- Weight
- Documented
- Mint or printer
- Research required
- Mint or printer mark
- Research required
- Catalogue reference
- Documented
- Licensed photograph
- Documented
Catalogue references
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 91, nr. 10-11
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographynr. 1184-1185
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution