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Trihemidrachm - Epikrates Hypata
| Issuer | Ainianes |
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| Year | 80 BC - 40 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Ainianes were a Thessalian people whose league coinage persisted well into the Roman provincial period, long after most Greek federations had abandoned autonomous silver issues. This trihemidrachm, bearing the magistrate name Epikrates and the ethnic of Hypata — the league's principal city — belongs to a series struck under Roman oversight but retaining the formal apparatus of Greek civic minting. The dating window roughly corresponds to the turbulent decades following Sulla's reorganization of Greece, when many Thessalian communities navigated delicate relationships with Roman authority while preserving whatever institutional identity they could.
BMC Greek 7 places this among a small, tightly defined group. The type is not common in any grade.