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Trihemidrachm - Eukrates Hypata
| Issuer | Ainianes |
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| Year | 80 BC - 40 BC |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Helmeted head of Athena Parthenos in right profile, wearing an Attic helmet decorated with a Pegasus device on the bowl, flanked by a tendril and four horse protomes as crest ornaments. The portrait is rendered in the Hellenistic style with fine engraving of facial features and helmet details. The field is plain, with no visible legend on the obverse. |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Phemios depicted as a nude slinger, save for a chlamys draped over his shoulder and a sword suspended from a baldric across his chest. He stands facing with head turned to the right, actively discharging his sling to the right. Two spears rest against his right leg, and a trophy is visible to the right of the composition. The ethnic and magistrate's name appear in the field in two lines of Greek inscription. |
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The Ainianes were a minor Thessalian people whose coinage output was extremely limited, concentrated in the late Hellenistic period as Roman administrative consolidation steadily drained civic minting authority across Greece. Hypata, their principal city, sat at the mouth of the Spercheios valley — a position of some strategic value but modest commercial weight. The Eukrates issues are among the last autonomous silver struck under their name.
The trihemidrachm denomination itself is an oddity, equivalent to one-and-a-half drachms, suggesting local accounting conventions that didn't map cleanly onto the broader Thessalian or Achaean weight standards.