Chalkon Hypata

The Ainianes were a small Thessalian tribal federation controlling the upper Spercheios valley, with Hypata as their principal urban center. Their bronze coinage was struck during a period when the region cycled through Macedonian dominance and the competing ambitions of the Aitolian League, which would eventually absorb the Ainianes entirely by the mid-3rd century. The Rogers variety designation here suggests a die linkage or ethnic spelling that deviates from the more commonly catalogued examples in the BCD sale — worth cross-referencing against the full BCD Thessaly I sequence.