Hemidrachm - Tolmaios Hypata

The Ainianes were a small Thessalian people whose league coinage was struck from a geographically constrained base around Hypata — their principal city in the upper Spercheios valley. By the late first century BC, such regional Greek civic issues were increasingly anachronistic, squeezed between Roman administrative consolidation and the broader collapse of autonomous league minting across Thessaly. The magistrate name Tolmaios appears on only a narrow run of dies, making attributable specimens genuinely scarce rather than artificially so.