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Æ20 - Tiberius ΟΠΟΥΝ[ ]
| Issuer | Locri (Achaea) |
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| Year | 14-37 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare head of the emperor Tiberius facing right, rendered in the provincial style typical of early Imperial Greek bronze coinage. The portrait displays characteristic Julio-Claudian features with close-cropped hair. The legend encircles the effigy in Greek characters, reading ΤΙ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ. |
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| Obverse lettering | ΤΙ ΚΑΙϹΑΡ ϹΕΒΑϹΤΟϹ (Translation: Tiberius Caesar Augustus) |
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Locrian civic bronze of the Tiberian period, struck by the community of Opous — principal city of Eastern Locris and the legendary birthplace of Patroclus. The partial ethnic ΟΠΟΥΝ[ ] in the reference reflects a die where the full toponym ΟΠΟΥΝΤΙΩΝ was incompletely preserved or struck, a cataloguing problem common to this small regional series. Opous held no particular favor under Tiberius, who showed little interest in extending Augustan-style municipal patronage into Achaea, leaving cities like this to fund civic coinage largely from local resources.