Brewer's: Charon's Toll

[care-un].' A coin, about equal to a penny, placed in the mouth or hand of the dead to pay Charon for ferrying the spirit across the river Styx to the Elysian fields.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
Charter
Charm
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