Tetrachalkon - Euxenos Hypata

The Ainianes were a small Thessalian tribe whose coinage output was modest even by regional standards. Hypata served as their principal city, and civic bronze issues like this tetrachalkon were struck under the authority of named magistrates — here Euxenos, whose term likely spanned a single year. The practice of naming the sitting magistrate on bronze civic coinage was common in Thessaly during this period, which makes die-linking studies across magistrate series a useful tool for establishing relative chronology within the type.