Obolus
"Obolus" in a Sentence (2 examples)
Dav. […] And after that I met the boy of Chremes With fishes, and an obolus of herbs.
The Globe editors have marked it with the obolus according to their explanation in the preface: "Whenever a lacuna occurs too great to be filled out with any approach to certainty by conjecture, we have marked the passage with an obolus (†)".