The Opuntian Lokrians occupied the eastern mainland coast opposite Euboia, and their federal bronze coinage reflects the unusual political continuity of a minor Greek ethnos that survived Macedonian hegemony, the Lamian War, and successive overlords largely intact. The ethnic ΟΠΟΥΝΤΙΩΝ — "of the Opuntians" — persists across centuries of issue, the polis name outlasting every external power that claimed authority over it.
The Opuntian Lokrians occupied the eastern mainland coast opposite Euboia, and their federal bronze coinage reflects the unusual political continuity of a minor Greek ethnos that survived Macedonian hegemony, the Lamian War, and successive overlords largely intact. The ethnic ΟΠΟΥΝΤΙΩΝ — "of the Opuntians" — persists across centuries of issue, the polis name outlasting every external power that claimed authority over it.