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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1714605, member: 19463&quot;]Now I know that this is nowhere near evidence of anything but the dents in Athena&#039;s cheek on this obol look like tooth marks to me.&nbsp; This coin is 2000 years older than Louis Pasteur so the idea of spitting out your payment when shopping would not have struck the man on the street as gross as it does today. </p><p>[ATTACH=CONFIG]264272[/ATTACH]</p><p>From Project Guttenburg</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3013/3013-h/3013-h.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3013/3013-h/3013-h.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3013/3013-h/3013-h.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="verdana">EUELPIDES</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="verdana">By Zeus! &#039;tis what I did myself one day on seeing a kite; but at the moment I was on my knees, and leaning backwards[1] with mouth agape, I bolted an obolus and was forced to carry my bag home empty. [2]</font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="verdana"><br /></font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="verdana">f[1] To look at the kite, who no doubt was flying high in the sky. </font></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><font face="verdana">f[2] As already shown, the Athenians were addicted to carrying small coins in their mouths. -- This obolus was for the purpose of buying flour to fill the bag he was carrying</font></span>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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