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Uncertain mint, Adaios, bronze coin — Upright club (CN type 20859)

DocumentedSupported by at least one credible specialist source.

Record status

Individual type · research required

Period

c. 275–250 BC

Issuing entity

Thrace

Coin 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 20859 (period: Hellenistic Period; issuing authority type: ruler).

Obverse: Head of (youthful) Heracles, right, wearing lion skin. Reverse: Upright club. Legend: ΑΔΑΙΟΥ. Measured specimens give a mean weight of 3.56 g (mean of 7 recorded specimens) and a diameter of 16–17 mm (from 6 recorded specimens). Published references cited by the corpus: 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.

Evidence at a glance

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Catalogue references
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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
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.
Type corpus record
https://www.corpus-nummorum.eu/types/20859
Type corpus identifier
CN type 20859

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