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astroratastrorat Posts: 9,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Hello folks!

I am interested in developing a list of television shows or movies where a central theme has some numismatic content. So, please post shows that you know where the plot is somehow related to coins. For example, the Hawaii 5-0 show about the 1913 nickel . . .

So please send the movies or shows and, if possible, the episode name and year for the TV shows. Thanks!

Lane


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  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,530 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What was that one with Dustin Hoffman and, uhh.... Dennis Franz (?)

    "American Buffalo", I think. 'Bout a Buffalo nickel.

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  • adamgoldadamgold Posts: 38
    American buffalo is right. It is a horrible movie, very very very boring.
    this movie is a crapper
    0 out of 5 stars - I think this made me hate those nickels
  • Cam40Cam40 Posts: 8,146 ✭
    Was it Trading Places with Dan Akroid and Eddie Murphy?
    Anyway, the bum on the street begs the greedy banker for
    some spare change.Greedy banker reluctantly gives him a single cent.
    Later or at the end of the movie the bum tells the banker the cent he gave him was a such and such
    doubled die something rarity and worth a small fortune.

    wish i remembered what the bum said the coin was.
    i want to say a `55 DD but unless its a super grader it wouldnt be worth `a small fortune`
    then again, Hollywoods been know to exaggerate things occasionally....
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,656 ✭✭✭✭✭
    One of "My Three Sons" found a '14-D cent in circulation.

    "Captain" Slim Pickens distributed gold coins in survival packs to his crew in "Dr. Strangelove".

    "Sheriff Taylor" convinced "Barney" that he had a rare buffalo nickel.


    After many years of seeing no references to coins in the popular media it's starting to make a comeback now. Still haven't seen any on TV shows or movies yet, but it can't be long.
    Tempus fugit.
  • GonfunkoGonfunko Posts: 1,481 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Was it Trading Places with Dan Akroid and Eddie Murphy?
    Anyway, the bum on the street begs the greedy banker for
    some spare change.Greedy banker reluctantly gives him a single cent.
    Later or at the end of the movie the bum tells the banker the cent he gave him was a such and such
    doubled die something rarity and worth a small fortune.

    wish i remembered what the bum said the coin was.
    i want to say a `55 DD but unless its a super grader it wouldnt be worth `a small fortune`
    then again, Hollywoods been know to exaggerate things occasionally....
    image >>



    No, that was UHF starring Weird Al Yankovic. Also, the guy wasn't a banker, he was the cheif executive at Channel 8.
  • FrattLawFrattLaw Posts: 3,290 ✭✭
    I just watched "Arliss" the other night on HBO and they had the 1913 Nickel on it.

    Apparently there was a collector that was going after a 500 Homerun Baseball for his collection and as he was discussing his collection of unique items -- comic books, coins, trivia items ect with Arliss he showed him the 1913 Nickel, but stated it was the ONLY one known to exist and cost him $1 million.

    Michael

  • GoYankeesGoYankees Posts: 1,025
    Wasn't there a "Hawaii 50" episode involving one of the 1913 Liberty nickels?
    Ex-modern Collector.

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  • GoYankeesGoYankees Posts: 1,025
    Oh, I almost forgot...

    A long time ago, while watching an old episode from the "Beverly Hillbillies", Mr. Drysdale showed Jed Clampett a 1894-S dime. When told that its value is worth $100,000, Jed replied, "Well doggie! You mean if I put that dime in a gumball machine, I'll get me $100,000 worth of gumballs?"

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  • LouisLouis Posts: 3,687
    There was a Matlock episode about a coin dealer named Koskoff.(sp?)
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  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    Uncle Scrooge McDuck had some rare dime.

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    I think Laurie Sperber has it now.
  • LouisLouis Posts: 3,687
    Plot Summary for
    Matlock: The Thief (1989) (TV)
    A coin dealer discovers that a man working for him has been stealing. He then demands that he returns everything that he took or pay back what he took. When he is found dead, the dealer is charged for murder. He hires Ben to defend him. And also the private investigator whom the dealer hired to get evidence against the man is giving Ben and Tyler unsolicited assistance, and is also a little impetuous, making things tough for Ben to get evidence that can clear his client.



    I might be wrong about the dealers name. image

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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,656 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There are dozens of references to coins on the Simpsons but they generally aren't important to the plot.

    There was one episode which revolved around a billion dollar note, though.
    Tempus fugit.
  • Parker1974Parker1974 Posts: 16


    << <i>There are dozens of references to coins on the Simpsons but they generally aren't important to the plot. >>



    Cladking, there was that episode where Bart becomes a faith healer. Ralph asks Bart to heal him ("I can't breathe good and it makes me sleepy"), and when Bart slaps him on the back, two coins fall out of his nose ("My milk money...And my milk!").
    Hutz: Now don't you worry, Mrs. Simpson, I - uh-oh. We've drawn Judge Snyder.
    Marge: Is that bad?
    Hutz: Well, he's kind of had it in for me, since I accidently ran over his dog. Actually, replace `accidently' with `repeatedly', and replace `dog' with `son'.
  • MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
    I went to a movie theater last week and i saw a coming attraction about some new movie that's coming out soon that seemed to be about some ancient mystical coin and a conspiracy where someone discovers secret meaning about the eye over the pyramid on the dollar bill or something like that.
  • MrSpudMrSpud Posts: 4,499 ✭✭✭
    I just asked my wife and she remembered the name of the movie. It's called National Treasure. I did a websearch and found Movie stuff which has the coming attraction preview on it. The movie is about some treasure that seems to be gold coins with eye on the pyramid symbols and the founding fathers of the US hid it for some reason and left clues in symbolism that ended up on future american currency. Some guy ends up stealing the US Constitution out of a museum because it has a secret treasure map on the back of it to find the treasure. It is something like that.
  • longnine009longnine009 Posts: 53
    I think Mr. Wilson--Dennis the Menace's next door neighbor-- was a coin collector.

    "It's an experimental division at Ft. Benning, and
    your lucky to be assigned there rather than anywhere
    else, because nobody knows anything about it, which
    means that you should know quickly as much about it
    as anybody."
    1st Cav in Vietnam
    Shelby Stanton
  • mheffner2mheffner2 Posts: 728 ✭
    There was Danny DeVito's coin collection in Throw Mama from the Train - that was the best kind of collection! It was the change his dad let him keep from things they did together when he was a kid.
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  • VeepVeep Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭✭
    Scrooge McDuck actually had a nickel...the rare Balbonia Nickel. Apparently, he bought up all of the nickels of a certain date and had them all (except for one) sealed-up in a locked and chained trunk and dropped in to the deepest part of the ocean. He now had the rarest nickel and was looking to sell it. He was told by a dealer that there was only one man in the world richest enough to buy it...the eccentitric billion, trillion, zillionaire Scrooge McDuck. The story goes on. But, I forget the rest.
    "Let me tell ya Bud, you can buy junk anytime!"
  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    Check out this page Veep.
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  • JrGMan2004JrGMan2004 Posts: 7,557 ✭
    There was some comercial some time ago that I remember. It was something where a Flower Street Vendor threw a coin into a change bin, and it was a copper '43 listed as being worth "$40,000" in the commerical... I can't remember who the commercial was for though......
    -George
    42/92
  • VeepVeep Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭✭
    I can't help it if Bowers gets the story wrong! image
    "Let me tell ya Bud, you can buy junk anytime!"
  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    Scrooge McDuck coin story's include,
    Dime
    Balbonia Nickel
    1916 Quarter
  • LanLordLanLord Posts: 11,714 ✭✭✭✭✭
    There was an episode of Twilight Zone called "A Penny For Your Thoughts"

    It was about a guy who flipped a quarter into a street vendors coin box and the quarter landed on edge, the guy had special powers all that day.

    In the end, he bought another paper that evening and flipped a quarter into the box and knocked the first one down and that made him lose the powers.


    Then there was an episode of Mission:Impossible where the IM team were trying to convince someone that they were living back in the early part of the twentieth century.

    they showed Walkers and I believe SLQs, then about half way through a 1964 Kennedy dropped from someone's pocket and almost blew their cover.
  • MadMartyMadMarty Posts: 16,697 ✭✭✭
    Could this be the Balbonia Nickel??

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    It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving!!!

  • PlacidPlacid Posts: 11,299 ✭✭✭
    More like a Banbonia nickel.

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