Obol

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Obol

An ancient Greek unit of weight approximately equivalent to 0.72 or 1.05 grams, depending on the region.

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Mr Brockson and two other passers-by saw the lights, and all three watched them pass silently overhead then take a curved trajectory towards Dunnings Bridge Road, where the OBOLs accelerated vertically into the clouds.

Probes or signs of an alien invasion? Just what are these orange lights? Master of mysteries, Tom Slemen, on a new type of UFO being spotted in Merseyside

vary from 7 drachmas and 2 obols for a stone example to 2 drachmas for one of clay.

Late Classical and Hellenistic furniture and furnishings in the epigraphical record

For an obol, or roughly the price of a red-figure pelike by the hand of Beazley's `Achilles Painter', the craftsman could buy nearly four litres of grain.

Pots of silver? Michael Vickers considers the original value of Greek ceramics, and why it has become inflated in recent centuries

That he balks at shelling out a mere obol signals his participation in the penury earlier adopted by practitioners of iambos and, more generally, his membership of the class of the abject and base-born.

New oil in old jars Hipponax's Lekythos-throw and Aristophanes' frogs 1198-247

The issues of such fractional coinage becomes more prominent in the fourth century when a wide range of small coins was issued right down to the value of one-eighth of an obol.

The private banks in fourth-century B.C. Athens: a reappraisal

Lane County Audubon Society: The third Saturday big walk will be to a location determined by interesting bird sightings posted to OBOL and other pertinent information available before that date.

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Operation Blankets of Love (OBOL) Retains MAYO Communications for National Publicity

The destination for Lane County Audubon Society's Third Saturday Bird Walk set for this coming weekend will be determined by interesting bird sightings posted to OBOL and other pertinent information available before the day.