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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Pavlos, post: 4625937, member: 96635&quot;]Very nice coins [USER=76544]@Brian Bucklan[/USER], I too am intrigued with the first chunky coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here an interesting coin from Thrace, it is not from a Thracian king, but from a Seleukid general who ruled there as dynast during the reign of Antiochos II Theos.</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. 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.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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