Adaios, bronze (CN type 20859)
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 20859. Obverse: Head of (youthful) Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: Upright club.
Physical characteristics
- Material
- bronze
- Recorded diameter
- 16–17 mm (from 6 recorded specimens)
- Recorded mean weight
- 3.56 g (mean of 7 recorded specimens)
Technical characteristics
- Authority type
- Ruler
- Issuing authority
- Adaios
Design
- Obverse type
- Head of (youthful) Heracles, right, wearing lion skin.
- Reverse type
- Upright club.
- Reverse legend
- ΑΔΑΙΟΥ
Identification
- Period
- Hellenistic Period
- Type corpus record
- https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20859
- Type corpus identifier
- CN type 20859
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. 147, nr. 19, pl. 36, pic. 24
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 237
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 159, nr. 1480, pl. 23
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 185, nr. 4.1, pic. 4.1
- Corpus Nummorum bibliographyp. 280, nr. 28, pic. 28
Research required
- Photograph reuse terms to be confirmed with the holding institution