Obelus

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Obelus [1]

A small coin worth about a penny, according to a custom among the Greeks placed in the mouth of a corpse at burial to pay to Charon to ferry the ghost of it over the Styx.

References

  1. ↑ Obelus from The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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