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Obelus

Obelus was a small Greek 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.

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Ober-Ammergau, Oberon, Obesity, Obi, Obiter dicta, Objective


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