Trihemidrachm - Echesthenes Hypata

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.