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COIN STUCK IN NOSE FOR 50 YEARSIn the buy-and-hold-investing department, Len Augsburger passed along this article about a Russian man who had a one kopeck coin stuck in his nose for 50 years. -Editor 
A man has finally had a coin removed from his nose after it was stuck for more than half a century. The 59-year-old unnamed Russian man was aged just six when he wedged the money into his right nostril. He was ‘too scared' to tell his ‘strict' mother about it and then later ‘forgot,' local media reported. The man apparently managed to live for the next fifty years unimpeded by the blockage until recently started complaining he could not breathe at all in his right nostril. He went to hospital and was given a scan which showed the unexpected object in the nasal passage. Rhinoliths – stones in the nasal cavity – had formed around the coin, constricting his ability to breathe. Medics carried out endoscopic surgery under general anaesthetic removing the stones and retrieving the Soviet one kopek coin from his nose after 53 years. The money – officially worth around one penny at the time – ceased to be used in Russia after the USSR's collapse in 1991 and the hammer and sickle emblem was no longer visible on the coin. To read the complete article, see:
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