Coins in Movies
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What movies can you all think of that really show some old coins up close? I'll start with Road to Perdition with Tom Hanks. I'm in a movie mood this weekend, this is NOT OT!! 
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I saw Seabisquit yesterday, showed a couple of Peace dollars a kid got for riding a horse
"Senorita HepKitty"
"I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
<< <i>I remember a movie with Steve Martin and he was a gold coin collector, and a little girl walked into his house...... his coins wound up stolen..... I don't remember the name.... >>
Wasn't that movie Roxanne? (I'm not sure)
"Senorita HepKitty"
"I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
"Senorita HepKitty"
"I want a real cool Kitty from Hepcat City, to stay in step with me" - Bill Carter
1984. Michael McCann (Martin) is a reclusive furniture-maker who lives in a cabin in the woods, with a collection of gold coins; years earlier, his life was shattered when he learned his wife was pregnant by another man. Nearby is the estate of the Kennedy-esque Newland family, which operates a granite quarry. John Newland (Gabriel Byrne) is an aspiring politician with a dark secret--he's fathered an illegitimate daughter by an heroin addict. One winter night, John's drunken brother Tanny Newland (Stephen Baldwin) crashes his car and kills a woman. Panicked, he flees the accident scene, breaks into McCann's home, steals the coin collection, and disappears into the night. Soon after, the mother of John Newland's child makes her way through a snowstorm to McCann's house, where she collapses and dies, leaving the child on his doorstep. McCann adopts the baby, whom he names Mathilda. As years pass, with the guidance of local shopkeeper Mrs. Simon (Catherine O'Hara), he becomes the world's most doting father.
Present day. Mathilda (Alana Austin) is now a bright, engaging 10-year-old; McCann has become a well-liked member of the community. John Newland (now a Congressman) is planning to drain the quarry and create lakefront property that will make him fabulously wealthy. However, he feels that life is empty because he and his wife (Laura Linney) have been unable to have children. He reveals that Mathilda is in fact his daughter and sues for custody. At the trial, McCann is portrayed as an excellent father who has devoted his life to Mathilda, but it is established that he's unable to provide for her future education. Mathilda testifies that she wants to live with McCann. Regardless, the judge intends to rule in favor of the wealthy Newlands. Just then, news comes that Tanny's remains have been found in the drained quarry--along with McCann's valuable coins. Mathilda is allowed to stay with her true father, the newly rich Michael McCann.
Looking for PCGS AU58 Washington's, 32-63.
Now I have a neat "Somewhere in Time" story. Two years ago I was fishing at an Alaska fishing lodge. One of those corporate boondogle places. There was an attractive woman there with her family. She was doing watercolor paintings of the river by the main window before dinner. After a while she walked away and I went over to take a look. Nice work. While I was looking she came back, and asked me if I did watercolors. When I said no she asked me if I would like to learn how. I said sure. For the next half hour I learned all about how to do water color painting from someone I thought must have been a respected watercolor artist, though no idea who. Then the dinner bell rang. I sat with my group and she with her family. Only later did I realize. A 1/2 hour painting lesson from Jane Seymour
Greg
Not only did they show two Peace dollars which were the correct coins for the time period, but when the story was pre-depression, they showed a LARGE SIZED dollar bill, a 1917 I believe, and a scene later in the depression, they showed SMALL size currency.
Correct in every aspect, someone did their homework to make everything correct in this flick.
FM - 1955DDO cent
Camelot
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Of course those coins were correct for the period. I was working for Harlan J. Berk in Chicago at the time and the prop man came in to get some period pieces and I took care of him!
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@CaptHenway... Well done... I am sure the prop man would have been happy with any gold coins, but the OCD in most numismatists MUST have the proper dates....
Cheers, RickO
Also, in the movie, "Ghost ", using a Lincoln cent, played a key part in that same movie. When Demi Moore first realized that Patrick Swayze was right there in the same room.
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.What movie?
Ray Donovan had an episode when Jon Voight character has a flash back of an armored car robbery of gold $20.
Let's try again, what movie?
@USSID17
Casino...specifically, the hard count room.
USAF (Ret) 1974 - 1994 - The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Remembering RickO, a brother in arms.
I remember Kurt Russell spinning a Morgan Dollar at his Faro table in Tombstone.
USAF (Ret) 1974 - 1994 - The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. Remembering RickO, a brother in arms.
Tin Cup where Costner uses a worn Mercury dime as a golf ball marker.
"Got a flaming heart, can't get my fill"
A Dog's Purpose
The 1907 St Gaudens Golden Eagle.
The boy's dad wants to show it to his dinner guest. But the boy knows his dog ate it earlier in the day -- so he needs to take his dog for a walk so he can retrieve it after the dog "releases the coin"
The dad and guest admire the coin, and the guest puts it in his mouth to bite on it (I cringe seeing him bite on the coin because of leaving teeth marks, and also thinking about where the coin just came from, or came out of...)
"The Fastest Gun Alive"
Silver Dollars (I think) a few times in the movie. Some kid throws to silver dollars in the air and Glen Ford shoots and hits them both before they hit the ground!
In the Batman movie The Dark Knight, Harvey Dent (Two-Face) has a 1922 Peace Dollar(two-sided obverse) that he uses to decide if people live/die. In this scene he is holding the coin up to the joker to decide his fate.
Thanks and Thanks.
While not a coin, the Imperial Seal as an item of value exceeding money was the subject of the Shanghai Noon sequel, Shanghai Knights.
Here is a screen shot from the movie as Jackie Chan's character holds the Imperial Seal:
And here is the prop as I acquired it in an auction:
@1northcoin That seal is really cool.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Remember...The knomemobile. I may have that title wrong. Walt Disney production.
There had to be coins .
No Time for Old Men (coin toss, flip of fate)
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If all the coins shown in the old western movies and series were mentioned here this would become 1 of the longest threads on the forum!
Thanks.
I also picked up the shield with crossed swords that hung in the Tower of London ? from which Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson took their swords to fight up to the top of the clock tower in one of the final scenes.
Here is a clip from one of the movie trailers which shows the hanging shield along with Jackie Chan's character grasping one of the swords he pulled from it.
And here the shield and swords are seen as I photographed them after one the swords came loose in an earthquake. and fell onto my desk. Luckily I wasn't seated there at the time to get stabbed.
(The crossbow seen to its right was a movie prop as well in the Shanghai Knights movie and was seen in one of the opening scenes in China at the Imperial Palace when the keeper of the Imperial Seal was shot by it and the perpetrator absconded to London with the Imperial Seal.)
Two Faces' double headed coin from Batman.
Ounce by ounce the stack grows .
My first encounter with the Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin from the 1946 film "Duel in the Sun":
Walter Huston presents medal to Jennifer Jones
The medal in closeup
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Excellent point.
Something about Westerns and coins. Probably tied to how the discovery of silver and gold in the American West is so intrinsically tied to the minting of large sized movie centric coins like the Double Eagles and Silver Dollars.
Case in point, the 1964 Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Western Classic - "A Fist Full of Dollars." (Even my prior posted Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson Shanghai series flicks qualify as Westerns.)
And this is what it looked like at my local hardware store in the afore referenced earthquake:
John Wick. The coin is an essential part of the movie and can actually be purchased!!!
(John Wick 4 to be released soon!)
screamers. kinda interesting if you like sci-fi stuff. i think it was pretty popular.
the fog
"MAGNETS" do we have "MAGNETS" in the store -"Cleanup on Aisle 5 - and YES, bring Magnets"
"When they can't find anything wrong with you, they create it!"
Untouchables
Looking for PCGS AU58 Washington's, 32-63.
Just saw the new movie "Nope".
Early in the movie a 1977-S proof Jefferson Nickel plays a part.
Towards the end some random pocket change is also important in the plot.
The only coins which appear in the 1987 film "The Untouchables" with Kevin Costner appear at the end of the film when gangster Frank Nitti is arrested and has to empty his pockets onto a table.
The Untouchables (1987) coins
Standing Liberty quarter obverse, Walker half dollar reverse, Mercury dime reverse
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television