📚 noun • entry_id 63287
Charon's obol
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óbolo de Caronte
A coin placed in or on the mouth of a deceased person as a bribe or payment for Charon, the ferryman of Hades.
Also, the Charon's obol of classical tradition was a low-value coin, a symbol that death makes rich and poor equal.
However, in tombs all over the cemetery the use of "Charon's obols" was widely practiced, primarily in the form of the local Kolkhidki minted after the Persian weight standard.
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