Hey, WB2- here's two more movie coins for ya (SLQ's in cinema!)
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I'm just getting around to binge-watching Mad Men on Netflix these days. With the show's attention to historical detail, it's not surprising to see a nice coin closeup. This was a Standing Liberty quarter in Season 1, Episode 8, "The Hobo Code". Though Season 1 is mostly set in 1960, the coin features in a flashback from Don Draper/Dick Whitman's childhood during the Depression, when Draper's mother invites a hobo in for a meal and puts a quarter on the table as prepayment for some work. But Draper's father then pockets the coin and welches on the deal when the work is done.
It looks like they got a pretty nice example for a prop.
A Standing Liberty Quarter is also a central plot device in the 1995 movie Two Bits, starring Al Pacino, which is set in 1933.
This coin looks to have been cleaned, and in the scene this screenshot comes fromwas it was in fact tossed on the ground and when the child protagonist picks it up, he scrubs the dirt off of it with his thumb.
It looks like they got a pretty nice example for a prop.
A Standing Liberty Quarter is also a central plot device in the 1995 movie Two Bits, starring Al Pacino, which is set in 1933.
This coin looks to have been cleaned, and in the scene this screenshot comes fromwas it was in fact tossed on the ground and when the child protagonist picks it up, he scrubs the dirt off of it with his thumb.
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Is the date on the "Mad Men" quarter 1930?
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I can't really tell, 'cause of the angle. Might be a 1929?
PS- I've also seen some old currency (silver certificates, I guess) in Mad Men.
It's refreshing to see they made that effort, when I've seen a lot of anachronistic money in movies.
For example, all too often you'll see a movie that is supposedly set in the 1970s or 1980s, yet the bank robbers or mobsters have stacks of post-1995 large-portrait $100 bills. Saw one not long ago where they had newer $100s in one scene and period-appropriate ones in another. Sloppy!