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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 3458092, member: 96635&quot;]I was not aware of a Thracian dynast named Adaios who was strategos of the Seleukid empire and minted coins in his own name, an interesting guy.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/bBBaIbr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><b>Thracian Dynast (Seleukid). Adaios (Strategos). AE coin. Kypsela mint. (Circa 255-245 B.C.)</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Laureate head of Apollo right.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> AΔAIOY. Tripod; to left, goat head right above two monograms.</p><p>Reference: SNG BM Black Sea 322-3 var. (monograms); HGC 3.2, 1763.</p><p>7.62g; 20mm.</p><p><br /></p><p>From ca. 260 BC onward, a certain Adaios, Macedonian by origin and a general of Antiochos II, a Seleukid king, minted numerous bronze coins in his name (six types, some in Seleukid iconography). They were struck most probably at Kypsela or Maroneia and actively circulated in southern Thrace. </p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/qbZuax3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>On the orders of Ptolemy III Euergetes, Ptolemy Andromachou, the king’s half-brother and a son of Ptolemy II by one of his mistresses, launched an attack in southern Thrace and Adaios was put to death at Kypsela ca. 246/5 BC. After this episode and the closure of the Third Syrian War (246-241 BC), the Seleukid territories in southern Thrace came under Ptolemaic control, which lasted until the end of the third century. As a result, new commercial routes were opened and the economic potential of Thrace grew stronger. </p><p><br /></p><p>Please share your coins from Thracian kings and dynasts and also coins from Antiochos II Theos and Ptolemy III Euergetes.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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