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Bedrock of the Community
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Well, capsnhawks, I do remember one British TV show that got it wrong!
Around 2000 I remember watching an episode of the police show "The Bill" in which someone finds a stash of £5 notes stolen from a security van in 1990 and starts spending them. There was a close-up of a £5 note with the signature of Merlyn Lowther, stained purple from the security package.
When the thief was caught, I was waiting for their lawyer to point out that they couldn't have stolen banknotes that were not in circulation in 1990 - but I was too clever for them! I should have written to ITV exposing this travesty of justice!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A double-whammy from the movie I saw last night!
Now You See Me (a FANTASTIC movie, by the way): at the very end, we see money that's supposedly been locked up for 30 years, fluttering down in a breeze. There are backs for both the correct period bills and for the large-head series, and there are also some large-heads apparently fluttering around--but [SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS] then we find out the money is fake. The thieves replaced it with gag bills featuring their own portraits, in the style of the 1996 series. A shot of the real money isn't close-up enough to see if it's period-correct, but there's not a colored bill among it--at the very least it's the correct color.
OKAY Y'ALL ARE SAFE, NO MORE SPOILERS. Go see the movie, seriously. I've only ever seen two good bank heist movies and this was one of them.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Sounds a good movie, ninamason!
I amso find it annoying when there's a coin mistake in a book. I can think of two in Jeffrey Archer's novels: in "A Matter of Honor", there's a scene set in France in the 1960s where a guy inserts a 2-franc piece into a slot machine (2 new franc coins not issued until 1979). And in "First Among Equals", two parliamentary candidates get an equal number of votes, and the election result is decided by tossing a George III gold sovereign, which according to Archer, has George III on the obverse and Britannia on the reverse - in fact the reverse should have St George and the Dragon! (Perhaps it was a forgery?)
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 United States
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Not an error, but maybe a crime. I was watching an old episode of MythBusters last night, the one where they were trying to shoot holes in Morgan dollars.  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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jbuck, I seem to remember an old pinball machine I saw somewhere that had a picture of a stereotypical cowboy shooting a hole through a Morgan dollar! A genuine piece of numismatic vandalism occurs in the 1960s British Tommy Steele musical "Half a Sixpence" - the hero finds an EF / aUNC Victorian Old Head sixpence, which is clearly seen in the movie, and cuts it in half so he and his girlfriend can each have one half as a love token! One movie with seriously weird money is the Johnny Depp version of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - I am not sure what country the coins and notes are supposed to be from... |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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NumisRob, re: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:
Augustus Gloop is German
Violet Beauregarde is French
Mike Teevee is American
Charlie is British
Wonka Chocolates is in Britain
Willy Wonka is also British
The books take place sometime between 1940 and the time of writing, 1964 (note that Mike Teevee's obsession is with television)
I'm not sure where Veruca Salt is supposed to be from, but I don't think she's British (I could be wrong, but I think in the original book both Mike and Veruca are American).
That might clear up a little bit any confusion with notes and bills.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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Thanks, ninamason, for putting me right there! Will have to screencap the coins and bills next time I watch the movie.  My all-time favorite book, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, has a blatant numismatic error! On the final page, set in September 1802, the narrator Lockwood gives the servant Joseph a sovereign as a tip - but there was no such coin in circulation in 1802: the milled gold sovereign was not struck until 1817. He could have tipped Joseph a half-guinea or a guinea, unless of course Joseph was a numismatist and Lockwood gave him a medieval hammered gold sovereign for his collection! As far as I know all cinematic versions of the story have omitted this scene...  Edited by NumisRob
07/21/2013 4:42 pm
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Puerto Rico
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There is a scene in "The Pursuit of Happyness" in which Will Smith lends his boss a $5 bill but it is one of the small head portraits appropriate for the period (1980's).
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Valued Member
United States
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In The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe pays his tab with a 1861 Demand Note $5, a few 1870's Indians, and other off-period coins. The film takes place in 1849....
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Interesting stuff everyone...
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Okay I have one and will provide some pics here soon. Getting Even With Dad (1994) - Ted Danson and McCaully Culkin. The whole film is about a rare coin heist and it's not very good. But, in the intro of the film they explain where the coins come from and they show all these shots of a $20 gold coin, apparently a grading type company grading and labeling these coins and then a picture of the printout of the dates and condition of the coin. Like I said, I'll post a few screen shots in a few days and we can pick apart the errors.
Edit as I'm watching it right now: - the 'grading type' company I mentioned is none other than PCGS! Except their grading room looks like a 1980's downtown police precinct. :)
Edited by rking007
10/11/2013 8:12 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Took me a week but I finally had the time to put these up. So, the movie starts out with a montage of these rare coins. The first shot is of a $20 gold coin and the next cut is of this first picture. The hand sliding the $20 gold coin into a flip... Wait, that's not a flip for a $20 gold coin...  Next, we have a shot of the main floor of PCGS looking just like a police precinct. I half expected Riggs and Murtaugh to come in and get chewed out by the captain... but that didn't happen.  Here are two shots of an official looking printout that encompasses the scope of this 'rare' collection. If this were true, I'm sure more than half of you would be millionaires...   Pretty sure this is the $20 the movie started with nicely encapsulated. Hey, I think they got this one right! Didn't check the cert number though.  This is apparently the outside of PCGS. In the movie, they rob the place and use this construction slide as a comical escape (Spoiler Alert... it's not too funny)  Last shot, another slabbed coin. This one sitting with about fifty other slabs in a strong box. Looks like they got this one right too.  Enjoy! |
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Rest in Peace
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If this were true, I'm sure more than half of you would be millionaires...
Ha, yeah, just a quick glance tells me just my Morgan collection alone is worth about $10,000,000.00. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Wear on a MS-64?  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I like the 1941 MS-62 Walking Liberty for $75,000...
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