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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I highly doubt that in those shows real rare coins are used. Most likely just fakes. Sort of like those cars they smash up. I've always liked it when someone handles a rare coin with bare hands.
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I would not be surprised if the 2x2s on Legion were empty. They did not give a good closeup.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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I highly doubt that in those shows real rare coins are used. Most likely just fakes.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There is one episode of "Gunsmoke" where the wife of a bank robber opens up a hat box and finds the purloined loot.
A screen shot shows a $10 National 1902 Bank note from Ch #6015 (Wisconson bank I think), a $10 1914 Federal reserve bank note from the 7-G Chicago district and what appears to be a bundle of Mexican Revolutionary notes from the 1915 era.
The stuff looks real to me!
I have the serial number for the National that was shown and have looked for it in auction records with no success. Evidently it is still locked up.
Amazing how that stuff hadn't even been made yet and it was already circulating in Dodge City in the 1870's! s/
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Norway
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Not sure if this counts, but I recently saw the movie 'Fantastic beasts and where to find them'. Somewhere in the very beginning of the movie, a closeup (in slow motion) of a very nice Barber dime can be seen. As the movie is set in the beginning of the previous century, I thought this was a very nice touch. |
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United States
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I will have to look for that.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The 1804 silver dollar is featured in an episode of Murder She Wrote
Tim Hughes
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The episode is called nailed
Tim Hughes
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United States
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In Genius the other night, Albert Einstein was given a Buffalo nickel by a young boy. There was a good closeup of it in his hand (it was the reverse) and was well circulated. Perhaps if he had flipped it over we would see it was dateless, of course. |
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Slovenia
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Not rare, but in the latest episode of Twin Peaks there are two interesting (and not very logical) scenes with coins. First is a Roosevelt dime and the other a Buffalo nickel. |
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Slovenia
459 Posts |
Just watching American Gods. Here we have some magic trics with Susan B. Anthony dollar as well as a really cool and strange scene with moon turning into Peace dollar. Plus a lot of gold coins I doubt ever really existed. |
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United States
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Interesting. I plan on binge watching that show at some point. |
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Canada
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The Persuaders, Brit TV show from 1971-2 had as its second episode one called "The Gold Napoleon" where the gold 100 franc piece had a starring role along with Tony Curtis and the late Roger Moore. As I recall, a coin dealer was making fake gold Napoleons as a way of smuggling gold out of the country as the numismatic trade was legal but not the movement of bullion. Something like that. Cool to see Napoleon III starring beside Moore and Curtis. Not to mention Moore's Aston Martin DBS in Bahama yellow. Now there's a collectible.
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Slovenia
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jbuck: You do that. It's quite ok. Just don't expect too much  Still ways better than the book in my opinion. |
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