coins in tv commercials

pontiacinf

theres a real funny tv ad in CT, for the CT lottery. Its xmas time and a man sits down on the couch with his girl, says its time to be serious, hands her what appears to be a ring box...she opens it up, and says "oh a coin" to which he says thats a 1913 uncirculated buffalo nickle, its quite rare, so she answers oh thats perfect, takes the buffalo and scratchs a CT lottery instant ticket. Comercial ends with him saying "if you like that I have some indian head pennies also"

quite funny-but what if it was a 13-s type 2

joeyuk

It should of been Laura's 1913 Liberty nickel.

pontiacinf

joe

my first thought exactly, but Laura's been quiet, didn't wanna wake her

hope all is well joe, good to see your still around

chabot510

I saw the commercial and had to laugh

seanq

I live in CT and have seen that commercial several times. It's cute, sure, but mostly it made me kinda sad and angry. It was obvious to me that the ad exec who scripted the commercial knew in the back of his head that there was a rare nickel dated 1913, but he couldn't bother to take five minutes and research it. Maybe I'm asking too much from my local Lottery Commission , and 99.9% of the viewers won't catch the mistake or care that it was made, but it still gets under my craw to see that sort of simple stuff mangled.

Something similar came up in a radio ad last year, coincidentally the ad was for the New York Lottery. They had a new scratch-off game called 'Triple Play', and the plot was two baseball announcers describing a game. It started off with one of the announcers calling a play as follows, "Score that one 1-6-4-3, a triple play!" Obviously the implication was that the ball went from the pitcher to third to second to first, but anyone who has ever scored a baseball game knows that the third baseman is "5" and the shortstop "6". The writer of the ad just assumed the infielders were numbered sequentially as you went counter-clockwise around the field. Again, it would have taken eighteen seconds to get right, and 99.9% of the listeners never caught it, but it graaaaaaated on me every time I heard it.


Sean Reynolds

IndianHeadMan

not a commercial but the gold coin in Sahara really ticked me off. They were rubbing, slobbering, scratching, and using it as a screw driver.

pontiacinf

sean I didnt even think of it that way...although i admit I said to myself "a buffalo...kinda cheesy choice for a coin"