Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Semiobolus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

SEMIOB'OLUS (ἡμιόβολος). A half obol; a small piece of the Greek silver coinage, of which there were two standards, the Attic, worth about 3.25 farthings, and the Aeginetan, worth 1d. 0.583 farthings. Fann. de Pond. 8.