Coins And Hollywood

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.

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.

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.

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.