If You Saw The Movie Sahara...

Hadn't seen the movie and now I know it's just too scary!!!!

I can remember the Confederate half dollar (VERY Rare). I can't remember a confederate gold piece. That doesn't say they didn't make one just that my memory is going. I also seem to remember that there were some fakes made that were claimed to be Confederate but never circulated or was there proof found that the Confederate nation struck them.

catman

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Originally posted by catman

I can remember the Confederate half dollar (VERY Rare). I can't remember a confederate gold piece. That doesn't say they didn't make one just that my memory is going. I also seem to remember that there were some fakes made that were claimed to be Confederate but never circulated or was there proof found that the Confederate nation struck them.

catman

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The cover article in theis month's numistmatist is the CSA half.

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Originally posted by ojo

I know it was wrong and I know it's fun but we all have to remember, its juat a movie.Most people dont care about the logic behind the movie as long as something blows up.

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I haven't yet seen the movie, but I read the book which puts the heroes (marine engineers - underwater researchers Dirk Pitt and his sidekick Al Giordino) into situations which are slightly left of credible. If any of us were stuck out in the middle of the Sahara Desert without water for as long as those two, we'd be dead, dead, dead. This type do-or-die situation is found in all Cussler novels, but Cussler is a great wordsmith and writes a wonderful and captivating novel. Sahara (the book) is a lot of fun and it sounds like the movie is the same way. What does it matter that a $20 gold CSA coin never existed nor to what use it was put as a tool in the movie? (Gotta remember that the bad guys who die don't really die in real life.)

Fred