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Pillar of the Community
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thankyou Mr FINGER:
I notice that the cars were parked on the left side of the street. I wonder where the film was made ?
Peter in Oz
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Old thread about the movie "Sahara", which features a hoard of mythical Confederate States gold coins. Then of course you've got the numismatic anachronisms spotted in films, like the Robin Hood movie (I can't remember which one) with coins from the 1500's (Robin Hood, if he had actually existed, would have lived in the 1100's). My favourite coins-in-a-movie anachronism is the funeral scene in "Troy" where two coins are placed on the eyes of the deceased Hector, to "pay the ferryman"... the ancient Greeks did indeed practice this ritual, but at the time of the Trojan Wars (1200-1100 BC), they hadn't yet invented coinage!
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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How about our buddy Two-Face from the Batman flicks...his coin decided whether the person lived or died! Pretty heavy responsibility laid on the "shoulders" of a coin! I also seem to remember maybe in one of the Creepshow movies a coin being flipped to decide whether a guy got to win money or lose his finger...not sure about that one-may be wrong!
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But that was a damaged common date Peace dollar. Defiantly not a high dollar coin. |
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I recall a CSI-Miami show where one of the investigators went into a pawn shop and wanted to trade a 1909 S VDB for a 1916 D dime. I can't remember the exact plot line of the show but I believe a collection had been stolen. It was CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Las Vegas), not CSI: Miami. Greg Sanders (Eric Szmandza) was the one trading the 1909-S VDB for the 1916-D dime. The episode is "Precious Metal" (Season 3, Episode 18). |
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It was CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (Las Vegas), not CSI: Miami.
Greg Sanders (Eric Szmandza) was the one trading the 1909-S VDB for the 1916-D dime. The episode is "Precious Metal" (Season 3, Episode 18). Thanks, I stand corrected. |
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You are welcome. It was easy for me to remember since I do not watch the other CSI shows, just the original.  |
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Biokemist, I remember that Hawaii 5-0 episode. If I recall, the coin actually gets lost on the ground, the 1913 V nickel, and a kid with his grandpa finds it, and his grandpa says something like, "1913? That is the year I was born, that is a lucky nickel!" or something to that effect. |
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There is a scene in Clint Eastwood's Fist Full of Dollars where stacks of Morgans and large paper bills are seen on a poker table.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I am going to date myself here on this one but check out "The Brasher Doubloon" from 1947 starring George Montgomery as Philip Marlowe, based on the Raymond Chandler book "The High Window". It's an interesting "film noir" mystery that revolves in part around the famous coin.
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And don't forget the original Hardy Boys on Disney's Mickey Mouse Club show, it was all about the theft of Applegate's "Gold Doubloons and Pieces of Eight" coin collection
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I was watching the movie "The Untouchables" (Robert Deniro, Kevin Costner, Sean Connery) and there was a seen where a gangster was being frisked outside a courtroom. The bailiff doing the frisking emptied the gangsters pockets onto a table and this included some coins. I was watching this on TV so I couldn't rewind it but I did see a Standing Liberty quarter. Which I thought was really cool. As for the coin in "The Dark Knight", I had some friends ask me what type of coin Harvey Dent had because they know I'm a big coin collector. I told them that the coin it was modeled off of was the Peace Silver Dollar 1922-35 but since the coin in the movie was actually a fake that the actual coin looked different than having two heads. If you want to see cameo appearances of coins in movies, old westerns are the best to watch, but like I said their usually only cameos. A few that come off the top of my head that featured a scene with a familiar coin or someone talking about a coin I know about are : The Searchers, Fistful of Dollars, Unforgiven, True Grit. |
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Cinderella Man shows some SLQs and some Buffalo nickels and such. Good movie. |
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I told them that the coin it was modeled off of was the Peace Silver Dollar 1922-35 but since the coin in the movie was actually a fake that the actual coin looked different than having two heads.
I was at my weekly bid board last night and someone had purchased a Two Face coin at a flea market over the weekend, complete with good side and bad side. It was even stamped COPY although I do not think that coin would be legally required to have it since it is a fantasy piece and not a replica of an original mint-issued coin. |
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