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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2578637, member: 10461&quot;]Oh, I dunno.&nbsp; Could&#039;ve been worse:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i>&quot;J. Sanford Saltus, an international figure in the numismatic world, died suddenly at the Hotel Metropole, in London, on June 24, 1922.&nbsp; His body was discovered lying on the floor, fully dressed, by one of the hotel maids.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>A verdict of &quot;death by misadventure&quot; was rendered by the coroner&#039;s jury. The evidence at the inquest disclosed the fact that on the day before his death he had purchased a small quantity of potassium cyanide for the purpose of cleaning some recent purchases of silver coins, and retired to his room. Shortly afterward he ordered a bottle of ginger ale.</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i>A glass containing the poison and a glass containing the ginger ale were found side by side on the dressing table, and it is believed that while interested in cleaning the coins he took a drink of the poison in mistake for the ginger ale.&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p></blockquote><p>(I believe the original source of that particular version of the story was the August, 1922 edition of<i> The Numismatist.&nbsp; </i>It was also reported in the<i> New York Times.</i>)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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