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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Copper Head, post: 1128750, member: 26489&quot;]Yes, the Greeks did this so the deceased could pay the ferryman to carry them away from Hades, lest they get left behind. This sounded better than putting coins over the eye holes, as the eyes were among the first things to decay. The coins would cover the empty sockets and the corpse not look so grotesque.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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