no idea what it is. from the context of the movie though, it is quite old and may not even exist in known text coinage. maybe someone will recognize it though.
Winchester 73 - they shoot at Morgan dollars that are tossed into the sky to break the tie between sharp shooters.
Dear John - The dad has a coin collection and the son, when he was a boy, finds a Mule nickel. Some coin dealer tries to buy it from the kid for a couple bucks so he could get a "You Suck" award on some forum!!!
no idea what it is. from the context of the movie though, it is quite old and may not even exist in known text coinage. maybe someone will recognize it though.
I actually enjoy history/public broadcasting channel documentaries that talk about the history of US coins and mints, etc. Recently (last few years) there has been a documentary on the 1933 Saint Gaudens; and before that there was a show on the Dahlonega mint if memory serves. -TEJ
as a kid, she takes a 1950 quarter out of a collection box, and is flipped throughout the movie to predict the outcome of the 50-50 chances in her life.
I'm producing a play in February/March in which several coins fron the teens thru thirties are produced and commented upon briefly.
(Ira Levin's Veronica's Room, a thriller in which attempts are made over the course of the play to convince a young coed to believe that the year is 1935, not 1973.)
I will of course need to use correctly dated coins for this as the theater is small and the audience is right on top of the stage!
Me at the Springfield coin show: 60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
The movie Cinderella Man (2005) starring Russell Crowe and Renee Zellweger which is the story of James Braddock a supposedly washed up boxer who came back to become a champion and a inspiration in the 1930's.
It is a great movie depicting very realistic scenes of what the Great Depression really looked like in New York and New Jersey with incredibly graphic scenes of people yanking wooden parts of white picket fencing to throw into their GAS stoves because they could not afford the natural gas utility charges of the day.
The coin scene was also very graphic in which James Braddock ear was bloodied in the ring after he received a stinging blow in that area, and his trainer took a Peace Dollar and pressed it against the ear to ward off a bacterial infection since silver then as now are known for its bacterial fighting properties. (That is known by most except for the FDA!)
The 1987 film "Black Widow" shows not only coins but pages from a coin catalog.
The film is about a woman who learns about coins in order to impress a wealthy man.
The coin is a 5 Franchi silver crown of the Italian province of Lucca, issued by Elisa Bonaparte and Felix Baciocchi, 1805-1814.
A page from an ancient coin catalog
The page appears to be Plate 28 of Carthaginian Gold and Electrum Coins by G.K. Jenkins and R.B. Lewis, published in 1963 by the Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain)
I have other "Coins in Movies" on my website below.
Lucy, the Coin Collector original airdate 12/14/1964
When Jerry finds a penny worth fifty cents, Lucy & Viv withdraw 2,000 pennies from the bank, and search through them until they find one worth $16.50. When Lucy drops the penny down a storm drain, they disguise themselves as workmen, and climb their way through the sewer system searching for it.
They use a Redbook with HUGE printing on the cover so it's readable on TV.
Frank Provasek - PCGS Authorized Dealer, Life Member ANA, Member TNA. www.frankcoins.com
<< <i>The movie: Getting Even With Dad. Raymond "Ray" Gleason (played by Ted Danson) is a man who figures the only way he can fund his dream of owning a bakery is to steal thousands of dollars in rare coins from The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS).
There was a bootleg High Definition feed of this movie on YouTube a while back, and I managed to take a screen grab of the printout of the stolen coins. Very interesting
Frank Provasek - PCGS Authorized Dealer, Life Member ANA, Member TNA. www.frankcoins.com
Well I saw two TV shows last week with coins, the first one was an old BATMAN where the Joker rigs up the Wholesome Cold Milk vending machine in the Gym at the High School so he can recruite High School kids to do his dirty work and for some reason all the change comes out as Silver Dollars to entice the kids and as a payoff of some kind, Corny as usual
And then I was watching an early Columbo "Murder by the book" with Jack Cassidy as the murderer, but in a few scenes Jack Cassidys Ring is shown and is a 5 dollar Gold Indian, it may have been his personal ring, allthough has no bearing in the plot, just thought it was cool.
The latest, now in theaters movie "Parker" is taken from a character in a series of novels written by Donald Westlake. If they continue with the series maybe one day they will do the "The Rare Coin Score"
I either heard a rumor, or I'm trying to start one...That they are making a high action, intense octane movie staring Arnold Schwarzenegger on the following book...
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I have a mental image of Clint Eastwood flipping a silver dollar across the back of his knuckles before a quick draw and shooting an outlaw. Maybe in Fist Full of Dollars?
Saw an episode of Bones last week where a Brasher half doubloon was brought up from a dive site and promptly identified by the diver -- by Breen number.
<< <i>Saw an episode of Bones last week where a Brasher half doubloon was brought up from a dive site and promptly identified by the diver -- by Breen number. >>
"The Man with the Bone" - a good episode (their writing has taken a turn for the worse in my eyes recently). Someone at Fox must like coins as they also had an episode about a 1943 bronze cent - "The Man in the Fallout Shelter", worth $100K.
Learn about our world's shared history told through the first millennium of coinage: Colosseo Collection
I was watching a taped episode of NCIS from Christmas 2012. It is the one where Denozo's dad comes for Christmas. There are fake $100 bills, and a visit to BEP. At the BEP office they have a big poster that features a bunch of old coins including a Morgan Dollar.
Current Events It's newsworthy. Only because it ties in with plaid shirts, coin shows and limosines.
Also, this documentary on Generals Lee and Grant in the Civil War has plenty of inferences to battles and one cannot get through it without thinking of a few commemorative coins, if one is numismatically inclined. At the 53:11 mark of the video I see a newspaper headline with the cost of " 3 Cents ". I didn't notice coins, per se. But it's a documentary that sure gets a numismatist thinking.
<< <i>There is a great book by author Fred Reed titled
"Show Me The Money! - The Standard Catalog of Motion Picture, Television, Stage, and Advertising Prop Money" (2005)
It's a huge, 775+ page book, illustrating mostly Paper Money used in the above (MP,TV,Stage, Ad.) with tons of photos of notes, in the films, etc.....
Great book - highly recommended. >>
Would love to see that book some time. I have some prop money that was used in the TV Series "LOST". (Two of my sons were "background actors" on various sets for the series. Below one is seated behind Sawyer on one of the infamous flights as well as standing next to Jack at LAX as Jack learns of his father's misdirected body. The last photo depicts a scene with Jack and John Locke in the foreground and the background having been "green screened" with my son and the other background actors being added in as background to John Locke's and Jack's encounter which was filmed at the studio while the background actors were filmed separately at the Honolulu Airport as the set for LAX. The first photo where my son is seated behind Sawyer on the plane was filmed on an airplane section that was taken to the same sound stage/studio that was used for the filming of the original Hawaii 5-O series.) Edited to add: A photo of the "Hawaii 5-O coin" from the original series that I took at the Portland Money Show is added.
In the movie "Moby Dick" Captain Ahab (Gregory Peck) nails a Spanish Gold Ounce to the mast of the ship Pequod and offers it to the first crew member who spots the cursed white whale..right after he nails the coin to the mast the ship gets stuck for days in a dead calm..the coin is cursed yells one crew member take it down and throw it o'er the side he yells and pay it to the sea as a ransom..they had some nice close up shots of the coin with the Sun reflecting off of it and I winced at the nail head sticking out of it I knew it was just trick photography but it was still hard to look at such a beautiful gold coin that now looked like a bagel.
no idea what it is. from the context of the movie though, it is quite old and may not even exist in known text coinage. maybe someone will recognize it though.
>>
That's a Byzantine follis. (Or supposed to be, anyway.)
Highly cultured people like myself remember an episode of Scooby Doo where the bad guy was running around trying to scare off people so he could get his hands on a rare coin. I believe he was dressed as a mummy. He'd run around in costume saying, "Coin....Coin..."
Another episode of Dennis the Menace (the priceless penny collection). Ater raising havoc all over town trying to collect pennies, he and Mr. Wilson get thrown in jail. After all is cleared up Dennis is gifted with a bag of pennies from the parking meters from all over town. After searching he winds up with 3 1914D Lincoln cents of which he gives one to his little buddy and of course one to good ole Mr. Wilson.
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<< <i>There is an AU 1912 dime in the movie "Titanic" purchased from Rare Coins Gallery in Glendale. >>
My local B&M.
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
<< <i>saw this one last night. >>
no idea what it is. from the context of the movie though, it is quite old and may not even exist in known text coinage. maybe someone will recognize it though.
in "The case of the Wooden Nickles" 12/10/1964
Steve
Dear John - The dad has a coin collection and the son, when he was a boy, finds a Mule nickel. Some coin dealer tries to buy it from the kid for a couple bucks so he could get a "You Suck" award on some forum!!!
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
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<< <i>saw this one last night. >>
no idea what it is. from the context of the movie though, it is quite old and may not even exist in known text coinage. maybe someone will recognize it though.
Constantine movie if I'm not mistaken.
It is cool to see all the bins and bins of silver! And they were handling freshly minted Franklins.
Very cool.
peacockcoins
<< <i>There was an episode of Psych last season which focused on a stolen coin.
JH >>
Yea, I remember this episode. The coin was one of the 1943 Bronze Wheaties.
-TEJ
an almost true story of a bounty hunter.
as a kid, she takes a 1950 quarter out of a collection box, and is flipped throughout the movie to predict the outcome of the 50-50 chances in her life.
saw this one this week. never noticed it previously for some reason?
(Ira Levin's Veronica's Room, a thriller in which attempts are made over the course of the play to convince a young coed to believe that the year is 1935, not 1973.)
I will of course need to use correctly dated coins for this as the theater is small and the audience is right on top of the stage!
60 years into this hobby and I'm still working on my Lincoln set!
It is a great movie depicting very realistic scenes of what the Great Depression really looked like in New York and New Jersey with incredibly graphic scenes of people yanking wooden parts of white picket fencing to throw into their GAS stoves because they could not afford the natural gas utility charges of the day.
The coin scene was also very graphic in which James Braddock ear was bloodied in the ring after he received a stinging blow in that area, and his trainer took a Peace Dollar and pressed it against the ear to ward off a bacterial infection since silver then as now are known for its bacterial fighting properties. (That is known by most except for the FDA!)
So, it just doesn't have a coin in it, it has a coin collector!
The film is about a woman who learns about coins in order to impress a wealthy man.
The coin is a 5 Franchi silver crown of the Italian province of Lucca,
issued by Elisa Bonaparte and Felix Baciocchi, 1805-1814.
A page from an ancient coin catalog
The page appears to be Plate 28 of Carthaginian Gold and Electrum Coins
by G.K. Jenkins and R.B. Lewis, published in 1963 by the
Royal Numismatic Society (Great Britain)
I have other "Coins in Movies" on my website below.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
Lucy, the Coin Collector
original airdate 12/14/1964
When Jerry finds a penny worth fifty cents, Lucy & Viv withdraw 2,000 pennies from the bank, and search through them until they find one worth $16.50. When Lucy drops the penny down a storm drain, they disguise themselves as workmen, and climb their way through the sewer system searching for it.
They use a Redbook with HUGE printing on the cover so it's readable on TV.
<< <i>The movie: Getting Even With Dad.
Raymond "Ray" Gleason (played by Ted Danson) is a man who figures the only way he can fund his dream of owning a bakery is to steal thousands of dollars in rare coins from The Professional Coin Grading Service (PCGS).
There was a bootleg High Definition feed of this movie on YouTube a while back, and I managed to take a screen grab of the
printout of the stolen coins. Very interesting
the Joker rigs up the Wholesome Cold Milk vending machine in the Gym at the High School
so he can recruite High School kids to do his dirty work and for some reason all the change
comes out as Silver Dollars to entice the kids and as a payoff of some kind, Corny as usual
And then I was watching an early Columbo "Murder by the book" with Jack Cassidy as the
murderer, but in a few scenes Jack Cassidys Ring is shown and is a 5 dollar Gold Indian,
it may have been his personal ring, allthough has no bearing in the plot, just thought it
was cool.
Steve
The latest, now in theaters movie "Parker" is taken from a character in a series of novels
written by Donald Westlake. If they continue with the series maybe one day they will do the
"The Rare Coin Score"
Link
I either heard a rumor, or I'm trying to start one...That they are making a high action, intense octane movie staring
Arnold Schwarzenegger on the following book...
"Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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Keeper of the VAM Catalog • Professional Coin Imaging • Prime Number Set • World Coins in Early America • British Trade Dollars • Variety Attribution
<< <i>Saw an episode of Bones last week where a Brasher half doubloon was brought up from a dive site and promptly identified by the diver -- by Breen number. >>
"The Man with the Bone" - a good episode (their writing has taken a turn for the worse in my eyes recently). Someone at Fox must like coins as they also had an episode about a 1943 bronze cent - "The Man in the Fallout Shelter", worth $100K.
goats
Also, this documentary on Generals Lee and Grant in the Civil War has plenty of inferences to battles and one cannot get through it without thinking of a few commemorative coins, if one is numismatically inclined. At the 53:11 mark of the video I see a newspaper headline with the cost of " 3 Cents ". I didn't notice coins, per se. But it's a documentary that sure gets a numismatist thinking.
CSA - what is that coin? looks like a doozy
there's a nickel in there somewhere i swear!
Eric
<< <i>There is a great book by author Fred Reed
titled
"Show Me The Money! - The Standard Catalog
of Motion Picture, Television, Stage, and
Advertising Prop Money" (2005)
It's a huge, 775+ page book, illustrating
mostly Paper Money used in the above
(MP,TV,Stage, Ad.) with tons of photos
of notes, in the films, etc.....
Great book - highly recommended. >>
Would love to see that book some time. I have some prop money that was used in the TV Series "LOST". (Two of my sons were "background actors" on various sets for the series. Below one is seated behind Sawyer on one of the infamous flights as well as standing next to Jack at LAX as Jack learns of his father's misdirected body. The last photo depicts a scene with Jack and John Locke in the foreground and the background having been "green screened" with my son and the other background actors being added in as background to John Locke's and Jack's encounter which was filmed at the studio while the background actors were filmed separately at the Honolulu Airport as the set for LAX. The first photo where my son is seated behind Sawyer on the plane was filmed on an airplane section that was taken to the same sound stage/studio that was used for the filming of the original Hawaii 5-O series.) Edited to add: A photo of the "Hawaii 5-O coin" from the original series that I took at the Portland Money Show is added.
<< <i>Ghost had a seen where Demi Moore finds an 1898 penny in her new place, then placed it in a jar "for luck" >>
Certainly a film worth watching again. Thanks, I'll be looking for that scene next time.
<< <i>
Are those bills from a particular movie or show?
<< <i>Are those bills from a particular movie or show? >>
major motion picture released on the big screen.
with all those nationals and certificates, i had to post em.
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guess this is a good reason to always carry an ultra rarity around with you. just never know when you may need to:
I finally got around to watching this film in July.
It is about a modern-day treasure hunt in Africa for an 1865 Confederate battleship.
The treasure hunters are led to the ship by a "Confederate gold dollar" found in Mali.
The film coin is played by a prop coin of a Confederate $20 coin, apparently more than one design was used.
I put a writeup and some pictures on my website under "Coins in Movies".
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
Coins in Movies
Coins on Television
<< <i> apparently more than one design was used. >>
not that i am aware.
i actually linked the same side you did on an earlier post, say 5-10 or so above this one.
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can you guess what this one is?
<< <i>
<< <i>saw this one last night. >>
no idea what it is. from the context of the movie though, it is quite old and may not even exist in known text coinage. maybe someone will recognize it though.
That's a Byzantine follis. (Or supposed to be, anyway.)
Wont give away the plot in case somebody wants to watch it but if you dont
heres the summary of show [monk