LOKRIS, Lokris Opuntia. Circa 356-336 BC. AR Stater (23mm, 12.04 g, 11h). Wreathed head of Persephone right wearing single pendant earring and necklace / OPONTIWN, Ajax advancing right, nude but for crested Corinthian helmet, holding sword in right hand, shield decorated with palm and griffin in left; broken spear and ground below. Wartenberg, "The Alexander-Eagle hoard: Thessaly 1992,"
NC 1997, 16 (same dies); SNG Copenhagen 42; BMC -. Good VF. Rare.
The fine and extensive coinage of the Opuntian Lokrians is surprising for a city whose place in history is relatively unknown. It has been suggested that the Lokrians, returning from service as mercenaries in Sicily, may have brought with them a quantity of Syracusan coins which would have provided bullion and the prototype for the 'Euainetan' head adopted at Lokris.
