Coins in Movies

BLUEJAYWAY

@WillieBoyd2 said:
The 1954 movie "Black Tuesday" is about two condemned men who are about to be executed in the electric chair.

Edward G. Robinson and Peter Graves flip a coin to decide who goes first. The coin lands on the floor.

The coin is a United States Quarter (25 cents) dated 1942.

Wonder if was a D or S mm.

coinguy82

Getting Even With Dad(1994) Starring Ted Danson & Macauley Culkin

islemangu

In the 2005 version of King Kong, near the beginning Jack Black purchases an apple on the street and uses a buffalo nickel with the coin shown for a split second

oih82w8

Andy Griffith on Coin Collecting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKWatPfxUVg

Andy's Buffalo is facing in that (right) direction.

Jed Clampett on Stamp and Coin Collecting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIN3ebZDDZc

DrDarryl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOjTNuuEVwhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=UJOjTNuuEVw

WillieBoyd2

A scene from the 1967 television program "The Invaders" showing that even space aliens disguised as humans had to use pay telephones back then.

pocketpiececommems

There was a whole show on Perry Mason about a guy making counterfeit coins that were replaced for the real deal.

seatedlib3991

that Perry Mason episode is called "The Case of The Wooden Nickels"

WillieBoyd2

The 1954 British film "Fire Over Africa" is about glamorous woman secret agent Joanna Dane (Maureen O'Hara) who is assigned to identify the head of a drug smuggling group in the North African city of Tangier, which was at the time an international zone administered by Great Britain, France, and Spain.

Joanna uses her physical charms and skills to get a job at a smuggler's hangout where she can coax information out of men who find her attractive.

At one point she contacts an Arab agent working as a waiter and hands him a coin with a message taped to it. The coin is a Spanish 5 peseta coin dated 1949 and minted under the Franco regime.

Joanna gives the agent a coin which has a piece of paper or tape on it.

The message reads "Farrell Murdered".

There is enough of the coin showing to identify it as a Spanish five peseta coin dated 1949.

Spain 5 Pesetas 1949
Nickel, 32.0 mm, 15.0 gm
The coin has an official date of 1949 but has a smaller actual minting date of 1951 hidden in stars on the reverse.

WillieBoyd2

A coin in the 1949 British comedy "Passport to Pimlico":

Passport to Pimlico coin

Only the coin obverse appears and it matches the obverse of an Edward IV gold rose-noble or ryal.

This coin is an imitation or prop coin. The real coins were minted from 1464 to 1470.

The film is a comedy about the London district of Pimlico and the finding of an old document signed by King Edward IV (1461-1483) giving the area to the French Duchy of Burgundy. The Pimlico residents then believe that they do not have to obey British laws.

Testoon

A couple of stills from another episode of The Twilight Zone:

EK1

In the series Peaky Blinders there were several instances of Coins being Flipped,as well as coins being tossed

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VWNL3Joecjc

https://youtube.com/shorts/5TDt_hTh9GU?si=Mkcn1CEYdj4DqxUm

there were also instances of Pound Notes
shown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORowp-Syyw