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Not coins, but if you see the movie "The Patriot" there is a sunset... over the Atlantic ocean.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Same thing in the Green Beret's
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United States
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In one of the Die Hard movies the guy gets bicentennial quarters to make pay phone calls.The bad guys steal millions of dollars of gold from the federal reserve.Then they try to buy a country,and get busted.SECOND BEST MOVIE EVER!!
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In "The Rocketeer" (the old Disney Movie) during the scene where Malcom takes Cliff's place in the plane as the clown, Patsy (the little girl) who took Malcom's place selling programs is calling out, "Get your programs! Five cents! One buffalo!"
And later when Cliff is taken to see Howard Hughes and he's forced to turn out his pockets I spotted Standing Liberty Quarters in his change. :-)
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I just saw Cinderella Man (GREAT movie by the way)and Jim uses Buffalos Nickels, SLQs and Mercs and silver certificates and red seal fives to pay his debts and in his relief money. The movie takes place in the Great Depression.
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This morning I watched the 1938 movie about Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI and they were just about to escape in disguise when they had to pay a coin to somebody just before reaching the border. They showed the coin and it was a 20 franc gold coin with the Kings portrait on it. The actor Robert Morley did resemble what King Louis XVI looked like on the coin.  I am not sure what accuracy there was in the scene but it was a pretty good closeup of the coin. The giveaway was that nobody handed out 20 franc gold coins, especially with your own face on it and think it won't get noticed!  |
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Dr. Quinn, The Series was given to my wife for Christmas. Started watching it a couple of nights ago, boy runs out of the saloon and bumps into a little girl with a basket of eggs and spills them. Big brother comes over and starts to put a whoopin on the kid from the saloon. Daddy comes over and grabs jr. shoves him away and asked what happened. At the end of the conversation, "HE THREW A $20.00 GOLD PIECE ON THE GROUND AT THE KIDS FOOT", I about came out of my chair. Wife said, "Whoa there tonto, it is on TV" and is not real. My response to her was, "IT LOOKED REAL ENOUGH FOR A TV SHOW" right down to the MM on the back..... Have seen episodes where they have paid for things with gold coinage and they all appear to be correct for the brief moment you can see them.  |
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In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Grandpa gives Charlie a 1922(maybe '23) Peace dollar to pay for chocolate in Great Britain. |
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I was thinking about the "original" "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" (Charlie and the chocolate factory was the newer version) and the coin he used when reading all these responses. I remember him finding a coin in the drain also but can't remember what it was he found but it was a big dollar sized silver coin
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In "Paper Moon" the money is looks pretty accurate, maybe someone can chime in and tell me if it is. The E.E.Jones signature is legit, at least. The opposite sig would have to be Walter O. Woods or most probably A.W.Mellon, but also could be W.H.Woodin?... 1929 issue of a 1928 series National Bank Note I'm guessing? In "Revolver" it is not ($12 bills!) but that added to the effect of the movie. In one of my favorite movies, "To Live and Die in L.A.", the counterfeit money is purported by the characters to be of the highest quality, but when closeups show the $20 bills they come from "Z" bank, which does not even exist. You'd think they would at least copy a real note, which in the opening sequence, the main villain does.     Edited by Libertad
02/23/2012 11:27 pm
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I found an interesting shot in a documentary, it was about the Catalpa Rescue in Freemantle Western Australia, in the 1870's. Near the start they are talking about raising money in the US for the operation and they show several stacks of what I assume to be period correct bank notes... then they toss a hand full of 'change' on the table It's blurry on the shot I can get for a freeze frame but I can see Lincoln memorial cents, Washington quarters, Roosevelt dimes, and Jefferson nickels... there were no half's or silver dollars in the mix  |
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2 years later... But thank you for reviving the thread. Good read  |
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Here's an idea. Movies hire experts to check accuracy for many things. Why don't the coin community, and starting with us, form a group of experts who could check the coin details, and for a fee. Perhaps the fee could be the authentic old coin. I bet we could cover most locations where the movies are shot.
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I saw an episode of The Twilight Zone that was set in the Wild West presumably in the late 1800s. Two cowboys in a saloon were making a bet, and one of them put down a "twenty dollar gold piece" that was "a month's salary." I don't know if that was a real Liberty Head Double Eagle or not, but I still cringed a little when it was slammed on the table.
The episode is called "The Grave" if anyone is interested.
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Posted 02/11/2012 12:10 pm
