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Hemidrachm
| Issuer | Ainianes |
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| Year | 360 BC - 350 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | The eponymous hero Phemios depicted nude save for a belt supporting a short sword in its scabbard and a chlamys draped over his shoulders and left arm, standing to left in three-quarter frontal pose with his head turned to right. His right arm is raised and extended in the act of hurling a javelin, while his left hand holds his petasos by its brim, employing it as a makeshift shield. On the ground line, between his feet, the letter Phi (Φ) appears sideways, likely serving as a magistrate's or engraver's mark. The ethnic legend ΑΙΝΙΑΝΩΝ frames the figure in the field. |
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| Mintage | ND (360 BC - 350 BC) |
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The Ainianes were a Thessalian tribal people settled around the Spercheios River valley, and their coinage is among the more obscure of the regional Greek issues — produced in limited quantity for a community that never achieved the political weight of their neighbors. The references here converge on a small, well-documented group of dies, suggesting the total emission was modest even by regional standards.
BCD Thessaly I #1013 places this piece within a corpus assembled from one of the most rigorously documented Thessalian collections ever formed, giving the attribution unusual confidence for a peripheral issue.