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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1781436, member: 66&quot;]Nice but the Trojan War and the fall of Troy was 12th century BC.&nbsp; Six hundred years before that coin.&nbsp; And while that coin may have paid the boatman&#039;s fee, at 1 gram it would not have worked for the practical reason for putting coins on the eyes.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For several reasons over time the eyes of a dead person will tend to &quot;open&quot;.&nbsp; So a larger heavy coin would be placed on the eyes to hide them and to hold them closed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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