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“Gentle Charon,” said Dr. Trefusis, “conveyancer of the dead, I have obols on my tongue.”

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

For this reason we still call small coins obols, and we call six obols a drachma, meaning that this is the number of them which can be grasped by the hand.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey

The guardians receive from the state a drachma apiece for their keep, and the youths four obols apiece.

From The Athenian Constitution by Kenyon, Frederic G. (Frederic George), Sir

B. Here's a dish of them To which you're welcome; this I bought myself, And paid eight obols for it in the market.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

This was entirely an ideal system; the actual coins being, at first, the silver denarius, divided into obols.

From The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by Shaw, William Arthur