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The authors express their gratitude to Emma Louise Kessler, MD for her generous donation to the Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Zurich, Switzerland.

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    Dominic Gascho, Simon Gentile, Stephan A. Bolliger & Michael J. Thali

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Gascho, D., Gentile, S., Bolliger, S.A. et al. Charon’s Coins. Forensic Sci Med Pathol 12, 384–387 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-016-9794-9

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