Æ20 - Tiberius ΟΠΟΥΝ[ ]

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.