Obol
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Obol may refer to:
- ObolusObolusThe obol was an ancient silver coin. In Classical Athens, there were six obols to the drachma, lioterally "handful"; it could be excahnged for eight chalkoi...
, a type of silver coin used in Ancient Greece - Obol (programming language)Obol (programming language)Obol is a high-level security protocol programming language at the Computer Science department of the University of Tromsø.It is essentially executable BAN logic, i.e...
, a programming language - Obol InvestmentObol InvestmentObol Investment was a Swedish company involved in fund managing and sponsoring sport events. In 2006, it signed a 15-year sponsorship deal with the Swedish Basketball Federation that resulted in the renaming of Basketligan to Obol Basketball League...
, a Swedish company involved in a major fraud scandal - Charon's obolCharon's obolCharon's obol is an allusive term for the coin placed in or on the mouth of a dead person before burial. According to Greek and Latin literary sources, the coin was a payment or bribe for the ferryman who conveyed souls across the river that divided the world of the living from the world of the dead...
, coins buried with the dead to secure passage to the afterlife.