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Trihemidrachm - Echesthenes Hypata
| Issuer | Ainianes (Thessaly) |
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| Year | 80 BC - 40 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Full-length figure of Phemios depicted as a slinger, nude save for a chlamys draped over his shoulder and a sword in its scabbard at his side, shown in dynamic action releasing a sling to the right. Two spears lean against his right leg behind him, and a cornucopiae appears in the right field. The Greek legend ΑΙΝΙΑΝΩΝ ΕΧΕΣΘΕΝ is distributed across the field, identifying the issuing authority of the Ainianes and the magistrate Echesthenes. |
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| Mintage | ND (80 BC - 40 BC) |
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The Ainianes were a minor Thessalian people whose coinage output was sparse and geographically constrained, centered on Hypata in the Spercheios valley. By the late second century BC, most Thessalian leagues had lost meaningful autonomy to Rome, and issues like this one — magistrate-signed under the name Echesthenes — represent the thin administrative machinery still permitted to function under Roman oversight. The trihemidrachm denomination itself is an awkward regional fraction, rarely adopted outside Thessaly.