Just got back from the school musical... I'm such a coin geek

airplanenut

So, our school just finished its production of "42nd Street," which I saw tonight. One thing bugged me... there's a scene where there are a TON of dancers dancing with large, wooden dimes (the "We're in the Money" scene)... the play is set in 1933...

THE DIMES WERE ROOSIES!!! OH THE HUMANITY

I'm such a geek.

JrGMan2004

I woulda complained to the Director... our schools putting on You're A Good Man Charlie Brown... I'm Linus...

XpipedreamR

That probably would have driven me nuts!

JLW

Jeremy,
Things like that bug the heck out of me as well! Oh well, we just have to settle for being coin geeks "in the know" I guess.
Joe

ms70

That would have annoyed me too. It goes to show we've had our current designs for too long as some people probably
thought that's the only dime we ever had!

mojorizn

I always wondered what the dates were on those silver dollars were when the cowboys would slide them down the bar in the old westerns.

Mojo

ddink

My Roman history teacher is about 60 and he keeps saying that the fasces is on "the dime." I so badly want to tell him that it's on the mercury dime, not the Roosevelt dime lol.

joeyuk

Didn't they use the wrong dime in a scene from" tittanic" ?

Newmismatist

<< <i>THE DIMES WERE ROOSIES!!! OH THE HUMANITY >>



Ahhh - literary License - Roosevelt was Presidnt and they must have wnated to pay tribute to him

Merc

I'm surprised they used the wrong dime. You would think they would do a little research and get the coin right for the period. Didn't they used sets and clothes that looks like from the 1930's? I'll bet they did.

In the Titanic, they did use the correct coin -a barber dime. Everything in that movie was done to exact detail for 1912.

airplanenut

<< <i>Didn't they used sets and clothes that looks like from the 1930's? I'll bet they did.
>>

They did that part quite well, I must say...

And no, it wasn't a tribute to FDR... LIBERTY was very clear on the left obverse

Coinosaurus

Saw the show on Broadway a couple months ago, they used a Mercury dime. But the date on the coin, IIRC, was 1933 - which seemed odd to me even though I don't collect them. Sure enough, none were made in 1933!

MFH

Jeremy,
Using Roosevelt dimes must have driven you nuts...I really got a kick out of these posts. I wished they had a least used a Mercury dime, even if was dated incorrectly as 1933 !!!