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Coins for the dead is a form of respect for the dead or bereavement. The practice began in classical antiquity when people believed the dead needed coins to pay a ferryman to cross the river Styx. In modern times the practice has been observed in the United States and Canada: visitors leave coins on the gravestones of former military personnel. [1]
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Grave goods, in archaeology and ... In addition, coins for the dead (including challenge coins) are sometimes left on American military graves by comrades of the ...
The coins may have been collected by the German soldier, but Research in Poland, a branch of the Polish Agency for Academic Excellence, said there is no way to be certain. Some of the coins found ...
The use of these coins, weighing close to a silique and found in soldiers' graves, constitutes "without doubt an important milestone in Frankish coinage at the beginning of the 6th century." [ 38 ] The excavations also uncovered elements of a necklace and fibulae "in gilded silver and cloisonné glassware."
As they cleaned the grave, three silver coins emerged, Ödéen said. Then, more coins surfaced near the skeleton’s left foot. The 800-year-old silver coins found at Brahekyrkan church in Visingsö.
In the 3rd- to 4th-century area of the cemetery, coins were placed near the skulls or hands, sometimes protected by a pouch or vessel, or were found in the grave-fill as if tossed in. Bronze coins usually numbered one or two per grave, as would be expected from the custom of Charon's obol, but one burial contained 23 bronze coins, and another ...
Archaeologists have confirmed that an ancient grave site unearthed recently in western Norway contains the remains of wealthy Viking women buried alongside jewellery, silver coins, and other ...