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Baysinger, I DIDN'T KNOW AND NOW I AM EXCITE!! It sounds like a reboot of "It" without the creepy clown factor.
I would like to point out a grace note in, of all the strange places, a children's movie called Rise of the Guardians. When the Tooth Fairy has to team up with Jack Frost, North (Santa), Sandman, and the Easter Bunny to collect teeth all over the world due to plot events, her fellow Guardians are shown leaving money from several different countries (I distinctly saw a bimetallic coin and a gold coin in addition to a silver coin that's probably a quarter). When they fly over Europe, they even encounter "the European division" (apparently in France your teeth are collected not by fairies but by mice), and the mouse they encounter is carrying a gold coin tied to his waist--looks like a 50-cent euro piece!
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Cowboys and Aliens
They used brand new Morgans. Not really an error but it was funny to see them inside the movie.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Would this include those late night shopping network shows where the guy with bad hair sells "highly collectible gold/platinum/chromium/whatever State Quarters" with certificates of authenticity and signed postcards from some congress guy? note: sorry if this offends anyone. |
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Pillar of the Community
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Littleboy, you owe me a screen-cleaning.
For all of the tea I had to wipe off after I spit it out laughing at your comment.
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The film "Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd" was set in 1986. One scene that stood out to me was with a teacher who bribed a museum tour guide with a Series 1999 or later $5 bill to speed up the tour so she and her class could return to school. Everything else in the movie was decently adapted for the time period, except for that $5 bill, which wouldn't exist for another 14 years.
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Bedrock of the Community
United Kingdom
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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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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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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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