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A show and tell of sorts. I like that!  |
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nice story JohnQ |
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Episode 6 of the third season of Twin Peaks (2017) features two coins. Now, if you don't know about Twin Peaks, be forewarned that it is weird, so I won't try to explain everything. The first scene is where black-leather-jacket guy interrogates Greaser dude.  BLJ guy produces a head's-up Roosevelt dime and flips it into the air, where it remains suspended for several seconds.       Greaser dude then feels something in his mouth and pulls out a dime.    But then BLJ guy looks up and catches something in his hand. He opens his hand and it's the dime, tail's side up. The dime in Greaser dude's hand has disappeared.       BLJ guy put the dime on top of his left wrist, head's up and delivers to Greaser dude the ultimate declaration: "Heads I win, tails you lose."     The next scene is at the end of the episode. A few episodes before, people have been telling Deputy Hawk (a Native American) that a major clue to solving a mystery will be related to his heritage. In this scene, he's washing his hands in the men's room.  After he towels dry, he reaches into his right pocket for something, and as he does, a coin pops out, hits the floor and rolls into the toilet stall.    Hawk finds the coin and picks it up: it's an Indian Head nickel.    I like how director David Lynch filmed Hawk's reaction with his profile facing right, just like on the coin.
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Sorry about the strange text formatting errors at the end... I tried to enlarge the font for all the text but the software didn't want to fully cooperate...
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I fixed all the text re-sizing for you jpsned
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and nice show of the coins on TV |
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Thank you for sharing! Twin Peaks is on my re-watch list. Hopefully I will remember this when I get around to it. |
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good luck with that jbuck.  |
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I created a bookmark.  |
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I fixed all the text re-sizing for you jpsned Dearborn, thank you for that! Edited by jpsned
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One of my favorites was the Twilght Zone episode, "A Penny for Your Thoughts", S02E16. Although, despite the episode's title, the coin in question was a Quarter.  I'm not going through 19 previous pages to see if this has been previously posted. |
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I'm not going through 19 previous pages to see if this has been previously posted. I love the photo you provided! Actually, I did post about this exactly three years ago (7/6/23).  . Here is what I wrote: This is from an original Twilight Zone episode, "A Penny for Your Thoughts." It's about a mild-mannered man named Hector Poole (Dick York) who pays for his morning paper by tossing a quarter into the vendor's change box--and it lands on edge! This rare event gives him the power to read people's minds, which ends up causing him nothing but trouble. This episode was first aired on February 3, 1961. Look at all that delicious silver! Yum! One thing I like about this photo is that it's a time capsule of sorts--it shows that in 1961, Walkers, SLQs and Buffalo nickels were still common in circulation.  Edited by jpsned
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Quote:it shows that in 1961, Walkers, SLQs and Buffalo nickels were still common in circulation. Exactly! Although in my younger days, I never encountered a Walker in circulation, when I first became 'aware', Franklin Halfs were still common. Heck, 50¢ was a big chunk of change for me back then and I didn't handle many of them. And I never encountered an SLQ, either. This was a few years earlier and since Twilight Zone likely didn't go out of its way to highlight obscure coins, yeah. Edited by Vector Ze
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A coin in the 1949 British comedy "Passport to Pimlico":  Passport to Pimlico coin Only the coin obverse appears and it matches the obverse of an Edward IV gold rose-noble or ryal. This coin is an imitation or prop coin. The real coins were minted from 1464 to 1470. The film is a comedy about the London district of Pimlico and the finding of an old document signed by King Edward IV (1461-1483) giving the area to the French Duchy of Burgundy. The Pimlico residents then believe that they do not have to obey British laws.  Edited by willieboyd2
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Uncirculated American Silver Eagles 
