<< <i>"Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) when a nameless rich character (played by John Huston) tosses a gold coin to panhandling and penniless vagrant Fred Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart). >>
Pretty sure that was just a standard 1930's version cap and rays silver Peso. TD
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
Different versions of Dicken's "A Christmas Carol," aka "Scrooge," have used gold sovereigns to symbolize Scrooge's greed. The version with George C. Scott used King George V sovereigns, though the story is set in early Victorian England. At the end of the story he offers a boy on the street below "Half a Crown" if he fetches the butcher with the prize turkey to be sent to Bob Cratchit. TD
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
anyone remember that twilight zone episode where the coin lands on the edge, as a result the guy could read people's thoughts or something like that? >>
Yes, that was Dick York who could then read minds. He was the original Darrin in 'Bewitched'. Lucky dog ends up with the cute blonde in the end too !!
How about the David Mamet film, "Things Change"? Don Ameche gives an old Italian coin to the 'Don' Robert Prosky. He tells him, "A big man knows the value of a small coin".....
<< <i>"Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) when a nameless rich character (played by John Huston) tosses a gold coin to panhandling and penniless vagrant Fred Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart). >>
Pretty sure that was just a standard 1930's version cap and rays silver Peso. TD >>
Cap and rays were not made in the 1930's. Maybe they used one from the late 1800's
<< <i>In the 1962 movie "Zots", an ancient coin with special powers is the MAIN point of the story. When a holder of the coin points at an object and announces "Zots !", the object is destroyed. >>
That's "Zotz," and it wasn't a coin. In the book the movie was based on, which came out during World War II, the item was a medal or amulet that the protagonist, a history professor, was sent as a gift by his nephew who was in the Army in Mesopotamia.
He was holding the medal when he happened to be hit by lightning, thereby receiving the power to destroy. He spend several chapters trying to convince the authorities to parachute him in to see Adolph Hitler so he could kill him, only to be dismissed as a nut.
At the end of the book he has given up teaching for a new career, exterminating!
TD >>
Yes, "Zotz" is correct. In the movie version, I believe that it is referred to as a "Coin" rather than a "medal" or "amulet". Zotz movie info
The episode of "The Streets of San Francisco" in question was called "A Collection of Eagles". I remember Michael Douglas getting some tutoring on coins and then proceeds to discover fake coins in the collection and announces that "flow lines shouldn't be present on a proof" (or something to that effect).
<< <i>In the newer Tim Burton version of the story - Charlie's Grandpa gives him what looks like a silver dollar to buy the candy bar, it doesn't happen, then Charlie finds a $10 bill in the street and buys the winning bar. >>
It was a BU 1922 Peace Dollar. That's the only thing in that whole movie that caught my attention.
Not exactly the plotline of the film but.... 'The Anderson Tapes' with Sean Connery, Chris Walken and Martin Balsam. the plot is to rob the apartments in a 5th Avev building in NYC. One of the hauls is a bag of double eagles that Balsam's character finds. he knew exactly what they were when he saw the bag.
<< <i>The episode of "The Streets of San Francisco" in question was called "A Collection of Eagles". I remember Michael Douglas getting some tutoring on coins and then proceeds to discover fake coins in the collection and announces that "flow lines shouldn't be present on a proof" (or something to that effect).
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Wow. Instant expert on coins with a little tutoring. I didnt know it was so easy!
Advanced collector of BREWERIANA. Early beer advertising (beer cans, tap knobs, foam scrapers, trays, tin signs, lithos, paper, etc)....My first love...U.S. COINS!
Oh, I forgot a major one: Sahara (just came out last year or so). With Mathew Maganahy (sp) The entire movie is about a search for confederate gold coins, which were rumored to have been minted in secret then shipped off to... well, Africa. Here is the funny part. The main character gets a hold of one of these never before seen $20 confederate gold peices, a coin that would in and of itself be worth hundreds of thousands. I cringed throughout the movie as this supposed treasure hunter handles the thing with his hands all over it. My wife was laughing as I told the TV off countless times over the handling of this supposed unique gold coin. But it gets better. Towards the end of the movie, he is chained into a truck bed and needs to escape... but no screwdriver... what to do Well, pull the unique gold coin out of your pocket (yes, he carried it raw around in his pocket) and use it to unscrew a handful of industrial screws to release the truck bed from the truck. Uh... it must be a gold/titanium alloy... And did no one mention that this is no way to treat a coin! My wife told me to shut up at that point, 'cause I was yelling at the tv. Gotta rent the movie. Its a fun adventure, and you can learn everything about how NOT to hand a coin.
Someone was murdered for their coin collection. But they found a 1943 copper cent on the body...which turned out to be his most valueble coin. It was interesting becuase they were discussing recent auction pricese and such.
hbo's been running an adult film for a few weeks, on at like 2am -
"dangerous pleasure" a record producer gets killed for his 1913 liberty nickel. in the last scene, his wife/widow is thumbing the raw coin on her way to hawaii with all his coins and cash. the rest of the movie is easy on the eyes too.
4/22/65 TV episode of the Munsters: "Love Comes to Mockingbird Heights". Uncle Gilbert (not a regular character) sends the Munster family a very large crate filled with Spanish Gold Dubloons. When the crate is broke open by Herman with an axe, the Dubloons poor out all over the living room floor, like a waterfall, with little Eddie sitting on the floor catching all the coins.
Advanced collector of BREWERIANA. Early beer advertising (beer cans, tap knobs, foam scrapers, trays, tin signs, lithos, paper, etc)....My first love...U.S. COINS!
An episode of "My Three Sons" Ernie losses his 1914-D Lincoln cent and blames Chip. They call in the neighborhood kids to have a mock trial and it's decided Ernie should believe Chip if Chip says he didn't take it. Ernie then discovers he had the coin all along and was wrong not to trust his brother. I remember watching this as a kid and cringing everytime Ernie put the coin in his pocket or took it out.
The movie with all the PCGS coins was "Getting Even With Dad" (1994, Macaulay Culkin, Ted Danson).
"The Picture of Dorian Gray" (1945). In one scene Dorian Gray opens his coin cabinet, removes a tray of coins, and then procedes to examine the individual coins with a loupe as he's carrying on a discussion with one of the other characters.
Marry Poppins. "Feed the birds with tuppins" or invest them in the bank. A tough decision for a young lad. It started the first 'run' on the Dawes Bank since the Boston Tea Party.
I remember that also. It was a peace dollar so you'd think the directors had it right. Did they???
The Wonka Factory and Charley were based in...
...Great Britian. Their coinange and currency was based on the pound system, not dollars. But the movie was really for the American public first of course. For those that really care. Hollywood...
Fine you want obscure recently in an episode of All My Children an autistic girl used a "lucky" Morgan Dollar to focus while testifying in court. She lost the coin when it rolled away on the stand.
Numismatist. 50 year member ANA. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Winner numerous NLG Literary Awards.
@shirohniichan said:
<< anyone remember that twilight zone episode where the coin lands on the edge, as a result the guy could read people's thoughts or something like that? >>
I remember seeing at least one Walker in the coin box.
The coin on edge was a Mercury dime.
Q: When does a collector become a numismatist?
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
No Country for Old Men - The Quarter
CHIGURH
...What's the most you've ever lost
on a coin toss?
PROPRIETOR
Sir?
CHIGURH
The most. You ever lost. On a coin
toss.
PROPRIETOR
I don't know. I couldn't say.
CHIGURH
Call it.
PROPRIETOR
Call it?
CHIGURH
Yes.
PROPRIETOR
For what?
CHIGURH
Just call it.
PROPRIETOR
Well -- we need to know what it is
we're callin' for here.
CHIGURH
You need to call it. I can't call it
for you. It wouldn't be fair. It
wouldn't even be right.
PROPRIETOR
I didn't put nothin' up.
CHIGURH
Yes you did. You been putting it up
your whole life. You just didn't
know it. You know what date is on
this coin?
PROPRIETOR
No.
CHIGURH
Nineteen fifty-eight. It's been
traveling twenty-two years to get
here. And now it's here. And it's
either heads or tails, and you have
to say. Call it.
I have been looking at appearances of coins and numismatic items in films for some time, and I have found the best one:
"Gold Diggers of 1933"
What more could one ask for, chorus girls, Busby Berkeley, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, and the hit songs "We're in the Money", "Petting in the Park", and "Remember my Forgotten Man".
The girls show us the money:
Chorus girls sing "We're in the Money"
"We're in the Money" (by Harry Warren and Al Dubin)
The long lost dollar has come back to the fold
With silver you can turn your dreams to gold
We're in the money We're in the money
We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!
We're in the money, the sky is sunny.
Old Man Depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
Ginger Rogers and the chorus girls line up
The coin props are based on the Charles Barber design used for United States silver coins from 1892 to 1916.
Some of the Barber coins would have still been in circulation in 1933.
More details on this film and others on my website under "Coins in Movies".
@coastaljerseyguy said:
No Country for Old Men - The Quarter
CHIGURH
...What's the most you've ever lost
on a coin toss?
PROPRIETOR
Sir?
CHIGURH
The most. You ever lost. On a coin
toss.
PROPRIETOR
I don't know. I couldn't say.
CHIGURH
Call it.
PROPRIETOR
Call it?
CHIGURH
Yes.
PROPRIETOR
For what?
CHIGURH
Just call it.
PROPRIETOR
Well -- we need to know what it is
we're callin' for here.
CHIGURH
You need to call it. I can't call it
for you. It wouldn't be fair. It
wouldn't even be right.
PROPRIETOR
I didn't put nothin' up.
CHIGURH
Yes you did. You been putting it up
your whole life. You just didn't
know it. You know what date is on
this coin?
PROPRIETOR
No.
CHIGURH
Nineteen fifty-eight. It's been
traveling twenty-two years to get
here. And now it's here. And it's
either heads or tails, and you have
to say. Call it.
Very surprised no mention of the movie, "Ghost "? Starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. The special scene in which the coin played a huge part was when Patrick took a Penny and slid the coin up against the wall. Demi, just seeing a lone penny moving up the wall. Remember, Patrick was a "Ghost ". Lol
"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.
I watched Better Call Saul recently and in an episode Saul cons someone into buying a Kennedy Half Dollar claiming Kennedy is facing the wrong way. Don’t want to spoil the scene so I will leave it at that much.
Off topic, but since autographs are part of our collecting community I saw a movie years ago but do not know the name of it, so I am hoping perhaps someone here can help me figure out what movie it was that contains the scene I remembered. Just remember a little bit of this movie. It was something on TV and I saw it sometime between 2003-2007. I only saw part of it due to being on a 15 minute work break.
Here’s part of a scene I recall: it takes place at a house, and it has a kid (about 8-15) or maybe more than one kid and a mother. The mother and kid are having a discussion about an original letter signed by President Lincoln and that such objects are not for kids to have, and that adults need to take care of them or something to that effect. The kid then goes in their room. That’s all I remember.
I'm glad that No Country For Old Men was mentioned. That is the most meaning for a coin that I can remember. It came out just a year after this thread was started (and most of the posts made), maybe the thread inspired the movie???
The steak scene in “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”. Liberty (Lee Marvin) drops three silver dollars on the floor while telling Tom (John Wayne) “Why don’t you get yourself a fresh steak, on me.”
In the 10th and final episode of Season 2 of "The Tudors" Anne Boleyn gives the executioner a bag of coins. The executioner's fee is 15 pounds, which Thomas Cromwell comments on earlier in the episode. 15 pounds would have been a lot of money in 1536!
@BillJones said:
Not a movie, but “Hawaii 5-0” had an episode that featured the 1913 Liberty Nickel. It started off with a coin doctor turning a 1903 into a 1913. Then the crooks palmed the real coin from a dealer and substituted the bogus piece.
The show started with a number of U.S. coins (it’s been so long I forget which ones) where an announcer quoted prices for each piece to set the stage for how lucrative the coin business is.
I was going to mention that one. I recall seeing that one on TV in the late '60's, and couldn't even grasp any coin being valued that much-especially a nickel even though ALL coins were rarities to me at that time.I recall the scene where the nickel even took a trip through a vending machine!
The 1st think that stuck out to me in this thread was a person confusing Bonanza with Gunsmoke! The poster 2 times referred to Festus in an episode of Bonanza. Festus played in Gunsmoke!
Did someone already mention the movie "The Brasher Doubloon"?
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
Comments
<< <i>"Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) when a nameless rich character (played by John Huston) tosses a gold coin to panhandling and penniless vagrant Fred Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart). >>
Pretty sure that was just a standard 1930's version cap and rays silver Peso.
TD
At the end of the story he offers a boy on the street below "Half a Crown" if he fetches the butcher with the prize turkey to be sent to Bob Cratchit.
TD
<< <i>
anyone remember that twilight zone episode where the coin lands on the edge, as a result the guy could read people's thoughts or something like that? >>
Yes, that was Dick York who could then read minds. He was the original Darrin in 'Bewitched'. Lucky dog ends up with the cute blonde
in the end too !!
How about the David Mamet film, "Things Change"? Don Ameche gives an old Italian coin to the 'Don' Robert Prosky. He tells him, "A big man
knows the value of a small coin".....
<< <i>
<< <i>"Treasure of the Sierra Madre" (1948) when a nameless rich character (played by John Huston) tosses a gold coin to panhandling and penniless vagrant Fred Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart). >>
Pretty sure that was just a standard 1930's version cap and rays silver Peso.
TD >>
Cap and rays were not made in the 1930's. Maybe they used one from the late 1800's
<< <i>
<< <i>In the 1962 movie "Zots", an ancient coin with special powers is the MAIN point of the story. When a holder of the coin points at an object and announces "Zots !", the object is destroyed. >>
That's "Zotz," and it wasn't a coin. In the book the movie was based on, which came out during World War II, the item was a medal or amulet that the protagonist, a history professor, was sent as a gift by his nephew who was in the Army in Mesopotamia.
He was holding the medal when he happened to be hit by lightning, thereby receiving the power to destroy. He spend several chapters trying to convince the authorities to parachute him in to see Adolph Hitler so he could kill him, only to be dismissed as a nut.
At the end of the book he has given up teaching for a new career, exterminating!
TD >>
Yes, "Zotz" is correct. In the movie version, I believe that it is referred to as a "Coin" rather than a "medal" or "amulet".
Zotz movie info
I remember Michael Douglas getting some tutoring on coins and then proceeds to discover
fake coins in the collection and announces that "flow lines shouldn't be present on a proof"
(or something to that effect).
Anyway, here is the episode information:
A Collection of Eagles
<< <i>In the newer Tim Burton version of the story - Charlie's Grandpa gives him what looks like a silver dollar to buy the candy bar, it doesn't happen, then Charlie finds a $10 bill in the street and buys the winning bar. >>
It was a BU 1922 Peace Dollar. That's the only thing in that whole movie that caught my attention.
<< <i>The episode of "The Streets of San Francisco" in question was called "A Collection of Eagles".
I remember Michael Douglas getting some tutoring on coins and then proceeds to discover
fake coins in the collection and announces that "flow lines shouldn't be present on a proof"
(or something to that effect).
-------------------------------------
Wow. Instant expert on coins with a little tutoring. I didnt know it was so easy!
<< <i>The Good, The Bad and The Ugly >>
That is one great movie, even when Tuco opens the bag of gold coins with a freakin shovel.
<< <i>"A Simple Twist of Fate" with Steve Martin. >>
my alltime favorite coin-related movie, 1 of s. martin's best!
K S
Sahara (just came out last year or so). With Mathew Maganahy (sp)
The entire movie is about a search for confederate gold coins, which were rumored to have been minted in secret then shipped off to... well, Africa.
Here is the funny part.
The main character gets a hold of one of these never before seen $20 confederate gold peices, a coin that would in and of itself be worth hundreds of thousands. I cringed throughout the movie as this supposed treasure hunter handles the thing with his hands all over it. My wife was laughing as I told the TV off countless times over the handling of this supposed unique gold coin.
But it gets better. Towards the end of the movie, he is chained into a truck bed and needs to escape... but no screwdriver... what to do
Well, pull the unique gold coin out of your pocket (yes, he carried it raw around in his pocket) and use it to unscrew a handful of industrial screws to release the truck bed from the truck.
Uh... it must be a gold/titanium alloy...
And did no one mention that this is no way to treat a coin!
My wife told me to shut up at that point, 'cause I was yelling at the tv.
Gotta rent the movie. Its a fun adventure, and you can learn everything about how NOT to hand a coin.
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Someone was murdered for their coin collection. But they found a 1943 copper cent on the body...which turned out to be his most valueble coin. It was interesting becuase they were discussing recent auction pricese and such.
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"dangerous pleasure" a record producer gets killed for his 1913 liberty nickel. in the last scene, his wife/widow is thumbing the raw coin on her way to hawaii with all his coins and cash. the rest of the movie is easy on the eyes too.
The movie with all the PCGS coins was "Getting Even With Dad" (1994, Macaulay Culkin, Ted Danson).
I remember that also. It was a peace dollar so you'd think the directors had it right. Did they???
The Wonka Factory and Charley were based in...
...Great Britian. Their coinange and currency was based on the pound system, not dollars. But the movie was really for the American public first of course. For those that really care. Hollywood...
The plot centers around microfiche hidden inside a gold coin.
One of the classics with Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder. Oh yeah and Joan Severance.
Remember the actor Russell Crowe using the Peace silver dollar as a silver piece on his wound to ward off infection after he was bleeding?
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Bump of an interesting thread.
Not a movie, but Good Old Mr. Wilson!!
As I recall he bought this for $750 ???
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My Toned Lincoln Registry Set
The coin on edge was a Mercury dime.
A: The year they spend more on their library than their coin collection.
A numismatist is judged more on the content of their library than the content of their cabinet.
No Country for Old Men - The Quarter
CHIGURH
...What's the most you've ever lost
on a coin toss?
PROPRIETOR Sir? CHIGURH The most. You ever lost. On a coin toss. PROPRIETOR I don't know. I couldn't say.CHIGURH
Call it.
PROPRIETOR Call it? CHIGURH Yes. PROPRIETOR For what? CHIGURH Just call it. PROPRIETOR Well -- we need to know what it is we're callin' for here. CHIGURH You need to call it. I can't call it for you. It wouldn't be fair. It wouldn't even be right. PROPRIETOR I didn't put nothin' up. CHIGURH Yes you did. You been putting it up your whole life. You just didn't know it. You know what date is on this coin? PROPRIETOR No. CHIGURH Nineteen fifty-eight. It's been traveling twenty-two years to get here. And now it's here. And it's either heads or tails, and you have to say. Call it.I have been looking at appearances of coins and numismatic items in films for some time, and I have found the best one:
"Gold Diggers of 1933"
What more could one ask for, chorus girls, Busby Berkeley, Ginger Rogers, Dick Powell, Ruby Keeler, and the hit songs "We're in the Money", "Petting in the Park", and "Remember my Forgotten Man".
The girls show us the money:
Chorus girls sing "We're in the Money"
"We're in the Money" (by Harry Warren and Al Dubin)
The long lost dollar has come back to the fold
With silver you can turn your dreams to gold
We're in the money We're in the money
We've got a lot of what it takes to get along!
We're in the money, the sky is sunny.
Old Man Depression, you are through, you done us wrong!
Ginger Rogers and the chorus girls line up
The coin props are based on the Charles Barber design used for United States silver coins from 1892 to 1916.
Some of the Barber coins would have still been in circulation in 1933.
More details on this film and others on my website under "Coins in Movies".
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Absolutely amazing scene.
Simpson's episode about the 'kissing Lincoln cent'. they found one, put it in the album and never looked at it again! like so many of my coins
Very surprised no mention of the movie, "Ghost "? Starring Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore. The special scene in which the coin played a huge part was when Patrick took a Penny and slid the coin up against the wall. Demi, just seeing a lone penny moving up the wall. Remember, Patrick was a "Ghost ". Lol
"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.I watched Better Call Saul recently and in an episode Saul cons someone into buying a Kennedy Half Dollar claiming Kennedy is facing the wrong way. Don’t want to spoil the scene so I will leave it at that much.
Off topic, but since autographs are part of our collecting community I saw a movie years ago but do not know the name of it, so I am hoping perhaps someone here can help me figure out what movie it was that contains the scene I remembered. Just remember a little bit of this movie. It was something on TV and I saw it sometime between 2003-2007. I only saw part of it due to being on a 15 minute work break.
Here’s part of a scene I recall: it takes place at a house, and it has a kid (about 8-15) or maybe more than one kid and a mother. The mother and kid are having a discussion about an original letter signed by President Lincoln and that such objects are not for kids to have, and that adults need to take care of them or something to that effect. The kid then goes in their room. That’s all I remember.
more TV--Amos and Andy valuable coin in the pay phone and then presses the coin return
Lafayette Grading Set
I'm glad that No Country For Old Men was mentioned. That is the most meaning for a coin that I can remember. It came out just a year after this thread was started (and most of the posts made), maybe the thread inspired the movie???
The steak scene in “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”. Liberty (Lee Marvin) drops three silver dollars on the floor while telling Tom (John Wayne) “Why don’t you get yourself a fresh steak, on me.”
The multitude of Pirate Movies with their obligatory chest of coins.
In the 10th and final episode of Season 2 of "The Tudors" Anne Boleyn gives the executioner a bag of coins. The executioner's fee is 15 pounds, which Thomas Cromwell comments on earlier in the episode. 15 pounds would have been a lot of money in 1536!
I was going to mention that one. I recall seeing that one on TV in the late '60's, and couldn't even grasp any coin being valued that much-especially a nickel even though ALL coins were rarities to me at that time.I recall the scene where the nickel even took a trip through a vending machine!
The 1st think that stuck out to me in this thread was a person confusing Bonanza with Gunsmoke! The poster 2 times referred to Festus in an episode of Bonanza. Festus played in Gunsmoke!
In an episode of “Mad Men” in a flashback scene, Don Draper’s stepmother gives a vagrant a Standing Liberty quarter.
Did someone already mention the movie "The Brasher Doubloon"?
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