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Obols through history The
obol (Gr****: ὀβολός, obolos, also ὀβελός (obelós), ὀβελλός (obellós), ὀδελός (odelós). lit. "nail,
metal spit"; Latin: obolus)...
- Look up
obol in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Obol may
refer to:
Obol (coin), a type of
silver coin used in
Ancient Greece Obol, an
occasional name...
- Charon's
obol is an
allusive term for the coin
placed in or on the
mouth of a dead
person before burial. Gr**** and
Latin literary sources specify the coin...
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Swedish company Obol Investment signed an
agreement with the
Swedish Basketball Federation in
early October 2006, the
league was
renamed Obol Basketball League...
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Obol or Obal (Russian: Оболь; Belarusian: Обаль) is an urban-type
settlement in
Shumilina District,
Vitebsk Region, Belarus. In 2023, it had a po****tion...
- (singular lepton),
after which 1
obol = 5 lepta.
Throughout its existence, the
obol was
equal to a
British half penny. The
obol replaced a
series of countermarked...
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standard unit of
silver coinage at most
ancient Gr**** mints, and the name
obol was used to
describe a coin that was one-sixth of a drachma. The
notion that...
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confirms that, in some burials, low-value
coins known generically as Charon's
obols were
placed in, on, or near the
mouth of the deceased, or next to the cremation...
- movement,
becoming a
member of the
local underground Komsomol organization in
Obol,
Vitebsk Voblast,
named Young Avengers. She
began by
distributing Soviet...
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Obol of Athens, 545–525 BC Obv: An
archaic Gorgoneion Rev:
Square incuse An
archaic silver obol of
Athens of
heraldic type from the time of Peisistratos...