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Chalkon
| Issuer | Lokroi Opuntii |
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| Year | 325 BC - 300 BC |
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| Value | Chalkon (1⁄48) |
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| Reverse description | Eagle standing facing, wings spread, occupying the central field. The ethnic legend ΛOKΡΩΝ is distributed around the figure, reading partially to the left and partially to the right of the eagle in Greek majuscule letters, identifying the issuing community of the Opuntian Lokrians. |
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| Mintage | ND (325 BC - 300 BC) |
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The Opuntian Lokrians occupied a stretch of the Greek mainland coast directly opposite Euboia, and their bronze small-change issues of this period reflect a polis operating at the margins of the major power conflicts reshaping central Greece. Philip II had effectively absorbed the region into the Macedonian sphere after the Battle of Chaironeia in 338 BC, meaning these bronzes circulated under conditions of nominal autonomy — local coinage continuing, Macedonian hegemony unmistakable.