Coins And Hollywood

And that video, my friends, explains why there Aren't any major motion pictures about us crazy folks. Sad to say but almost all forms of collecting are viewed as boring, nerdy, and downright pointless.

With the exception of collecting guns, and cars I can't think of any other major collecting hobby that actually is in the constant lime light.

I collect guns, knives, and coins! The nerd factor is at least covered up a little :-)

Darn, I'm still a nerd with a gun. Thanks GO!

What would have been nice is in some heist movie like Entrapment or the Oceans movies if one of the items they were wanting to steal was a crazy high dollar coin

I should write a script

Old thread about the movie "Sahara", which features a hoard of mythical Confederate States gold coins.

Then of course you've got the numismatic anachronisms spotted in films, like the Robin Hood movie (I can't remember which one) with coins from the 1500's (Robin Hood, if he had actually existed, would have lived in the 1100's). My favourite coins-in-a-movie anachronism is the funeral scene in "Troy" where two coins are placed on the eyes of the deceased Hector, to "pay the ferryman"... the ancient Greeks did indeed practice this ritual, but at the time of the Trojan Wars (1200-1100 BC), they hadn't yet invented coinage!

But that was a damaged common date Peace dollar. Defiantly not a high dollar coin.

Thanks, I stand corrected.

Biokemist, I remember that Hawaii 5-0 episode. If I recall, the coin actually gets lost on the ground, the 1913 V nickel, and a kid with his grandpa finds it, and his grandpa says something like, "1913? That is the year I was born, that is a lucky nickel!" or something to that effect.