On receiving a sentence of three years' imprisonment, an Englishman, to prevent them being taken from him, swallowed seven half-crowns.

He suffered no bad effects, and the coins not appearing the affair was forgotten.

While at stool some twenty months afterward, having taken a purgative for intense abdominal pain, the seven coins fell clattering into the chamber.

Hevin mentions the case of a man who, on being captured by Barbary pirates, swallowed all the money he had on his person.

It is said that a certain Italian swallowed 100 louis d'ors at a time.
It occasionally happens that false teeth are accidentally swallowed, and even passed through the intestinal tract.