Coins on Television - "Maverick" Seated Liberty dollar
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An imitation United States Seated Liberty dollar coin appears in a 1960 episode of the Western television program "Maverick".
"Maverick" starred James Garner as Bret Maverick and Jack Kelly as his brother Bart Maverick. Both were gamblers and constantly getting into trouble.
This episode is titled "Iron Hand", only has Bart Maverick (Jack Kelly) in it, and and was first broadcast in 1960.
Bart Maverick takes a job working for a woman cattle rancher to help her drive her cattle to a market town.
The lady charms Bart and sometimes offers to flip a coin for his fee.
The coin:
Maverick television program "Iron Hand" - Seated Liberty coin
The Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Company made imitation coins for the film industry for a long time.
Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Company - President Monroe Seated Liberty coin
White metal, 38 mm, 19.52 gm
Obverse:
President Monroe facing half left, wreath and ribbon, no text
Reverse:
United States Seated Liberty dollar obverse with eight stars and date 1866, HONOR on shield
(The original coin has LIBERTY on the shield)
The coin appears several times in the program allowing for a good look at it.
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Interesting. Loved that show. Don’t forget Beau Maverick, played by Roger Moore.
Speaking of coins on TV ,,, here a was coin question worth one Million Dollar!
I was watching a old rerun of "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" hosted by Regis Philbin ( about the year 2000) ... and it turned out to be an episode where a contestant made it up through the $500,000 question and was going for the 1$ Million dollar.
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He passed and walked away with the 500K. Oh well.
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The 1913 “$100,000 Nickel” was featured on a 1973 episode of Hawaii Five-O. It’s known as the Olsen specimen & I believe it’s graded PR64:
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he can go buy the whole set now but thats just me
@retirednow . Great. I've been hanging onto that bit of trivia for over 50 years and now i find out it's been used. james
Here is one I bought some time ago, before I knew that it was a movie prop coin. At that time I did realize that it was not actually a real coin, or from the year 1866. So I didn't pay a lot for it. It appears to be a copper-nickel alloy or "German Silver".