Obol (river)
Obol may refer to: * Obol (coin), a type of silver coin used in Ancient Greece * Obol, an occasional name for the halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin) * Obol (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Region, Belarus * Obol (river), a river in Belarus * Obol Investment, a Swedish company involved in a major fraud scandal * Obol Basketball League, former name of the Swedish Basketball League Svenska Basketligan, or the Swedish Basketball League (SBL), is the premier league for professional basketball in Sweden. The league was originally established in 1992 as Basketligan and was known as that prior to the season of 2006–07, but whe ...

Obol (coin)
The obol ( grc-gre, , ''obolos'', also ὀβελός (''obelós''), ὀβελλός (''obellós''), ὀδελός (''odelós'').  "nail, metal spit"; la, obolus) was a form of ancient Greek currency and weight. Currency Obols were used from early times. According to Plutarch they were originally spits of copper or bronze traded by weight, while six obols make a drachma or a handful, since that was as many as the hand could grasp. Heraklides of Pontus (died ca. 310 BC) is cited as having mentioned the obols of Heraion and also gives the etymology of ''obolos'' (the name of the coin) from ''obelos'' (the word for "spit, spike, nail"). Similarly, the historian Ephorus in his equally lost work ''On Inventions'' (mid 4th century BC) is said to have mentioned the obols of Heraion. Excavations at Argos discovered several dozen of these early obols, dated well before 800 BC; they are now displayed at the Numismatic Museum of Athens. Archaeologists today describe the i ...
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Halfpenny (British Pre-decimal Coin)
The British pre-decimal halfpenny, (pronounced ), historically also known as the obol and once abbreviated ''ob.'' (from the Latin 'obulus'), was a denomination of sterling coinage worth of one pound, of one shilling, or of one penny. Originally the halfpenny was minted in copper, but after 1860 it was minted in bronze. In the run-up to decimalisation it ceased to be legal tender from 31 July 1969. The halfpenny featured two different designs on its reverse during its years in circulation. From 1672 until 1936 the image of Britannia appeared on the reverse, and from 1937 onwards the image of the Golden Hind appeared. Like all British coinage, it bore the portrait of the monarch on the obverse. "Halfpenny" was colloquially written ''ha’penny'', and "''d''" was spoken as "a penny ha’penny" or ''three ha’pence'' . "Halfpenny" is a rare example of a word in the English language that has a silent ' f'. Before Decimal Day in 1971, sterling used the Carolingian moneta ...
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Obol (urban-type Settlement)
Obal or Obol ( be, Обаль; russian: Оболь) is an urban-type settlement in Shumilina District, Vitebsk Region, Belarus. In 2023, it had a population of 2,139. History Obal was known since the 16th century as a village of the Połock Voivodeship, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. in 1772, following the Partitions of Poland, it became part of the Russian Empire. In 1866, the construction of the Riga-Oryol railway contributed to its growth. During the Second World War, German troops occupied the village from August 1941 to June 26, 1944. In 1968, the status of Obol was raised from village to urban-type settlement. Geography Located in the center of Vitebsk Region, Obal lies between Vitebsk ( southeast) and Polotsk ( northwest), and is crossed by the Obal River. It is located from Shumilina, from Novopolotsk and from Minsk. The town is served by the P20 highway and by the Smolensk-Vitebsk-Daugavpils-Riga railway. Notable people * Zinaida Portnova (1 ...
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Obol (river)
Obol may refer to: * Obol (coin), a type of silver coin used in Ancient Greece * Obol, an occasional name for the halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin) * Obol (urban-type settlement), an urban-type settlement in Vitebsk Region, Belarus * Obol (river), a river in Belarus * Obol Investment, a Swedish company involved in a major fraud scandal * Obol Basketball League, former name of the Swedish Basketball League Svenska Basketligan, or the Swedish Basketball League (SBL), is the premier league for professional basketball in Sweden. The league was originally established in 1992 as Basketligan and was known as that prior to the season of 2006–07, but whe ...

Obol Investment
Obol Investment was an apparent Swedish company involved in fund managing and sponsoring sport events. In 2006, it signed a 15-year sponsorship deal with the Swedish Basketball Federation that resulted in the renaming of ''Basketligan'' ("the Basketball league") to Obol Basketball League. It was later revealed by independently working journalists aNorrbottens-Kurirenand Sveriges Radio's ''Kaliber'', an investigative journalism program, that the company did not have a permits to conduct business in Sweden and that the company seemed to have no traceable fund assets. Or at least not in the amounts claimed by the company spokespersons ($1-15 billion US Dollars). The Obol affair According to Radio Sweden's domestic program ''Kaliber'' on 3 December 2006, the company "Obol Investment" doesn't exist, and doesn't have the necessary permits to manage funds in Sweden, Switzerland or any other country. It was also revealed that the focal point of Obol, the charismatic entrepreneur Bo Johans ...
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