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Obolo

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Ob´o`lo
n.1.A copper coin, used in the Ionian Islands, about one cent in value.


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2) When a Greek died, a coin (usually an obolos, the smallest domination) was put in his or her mouth to pay Charon, the ferryman who conveyed souls across the river Styx.
 
 
 
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