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• The E-Sylum: Volume 8, Number 8, February 20, 2005, Article 23
  

  COOKING WITH COINS: BAD IDEA
  

  Last week, we published Roger deWardt Lane's story about
  his first dime, which had been accidentally baked into a pancake.
  

  Leonard Augsburger writes: "Putting coins in pancakes is bad.
  The following is from The Numismatist, December 1983:
  

  Queen Victoria had in 1840 ordered that gold sovereigns be
  placed in Christmas puddings given to the royal staff. The
  tradition of handing the gold piece directly to the gift recipient
  was a bit safer, because there was always the danger that
  someone might swallow a coin by accident. This happened
  on at least one occasion, to a gentleman named Ernest
  Hatfield who accidentally ingested a Christmas coin baked
  in a pudding and required surgery many years later to
  remove it. "
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v08n08a23.html

Date published

• 2005-02-20

Volume

• 8

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