Coins in Movies - The Great Sinner (1949) with Gregory Peck and German thalers on the table

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"The Great Sinner" is a 1949 film set around 1860 at the Wiesbaden casino in Germany.

Gregory Peck meets Ava Gardner and she introduces him to gambling.

"The Great Sinner" - Gregory Peck

At one point he puts two coins on the roulette table:

"The Great Sinner" - Coins on the table

The coin showing is a Germany Prussia Vereinsthaler of King Friedrich Wilhelm IV minted 1857 to 1861.

Naturally, I just had to get one:

Germany Prussia Vereinsthaler 1860
Silver, 34 mm, 18.52 gm, Berlin mint 'A'
Obverse: FRIEDR. WILHELM IV KOENIG V. PREUSSEN
Reverse: EIN VEREINSTHALER XXX EIN PFUND FEIN 1860

The film does not explicitly state what "great sin" Gregory Peck has committed but could he have killed a ...

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mockingbird?

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I would take a lot of thalers to get me to sit through a Gregory Peck movie.

WillieBoyd2

(Revised May 30 after receiving new information)

Another scene with coins on the table:

The coin obverse shown is a post 1871 German unification Prussia state coin minted from 1874 to 1876. The coin reverses are the common post-unification reverses.

An example of a German Prussia post-unification 5 Mark coin:

Germany Prussia 5 Marks 1876-C (Frankfurt mint)

Silver, 38 mm, 27.38 gm
Obverse: WILHELM DEUTSCHER KAISER KÖNIG V. PREUSSEN
Reverse: DEUTSCHES REICH 1876 / FÜNF MARK