If a Leprechaun gives you a gold coin and it turns into a pebble, do you have any recourse?
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Coins in Movies: "The Luck of the Irish" (1948) with Tyrone Power.
I watched the film "The Luck of the Irish" on television several times when I was a kid,
sometimes with my father who was into Irish-related films.
The film is on DVD now and I watched it recently, and found that there was a coin involved in the story.
While visiting Ireland, American newspaper reporter Tyrone Power meets a Leprechaun who gives him a
gold coin as a "lucky coin".
Later local girl Anne Baxter identifies the coin as a Spanish Doubloon, sixteenth century,
from the (1588) Armada wreckage.
The coin is shown, it is, of course, an imitation prop coin.
The coin is apparently based on an old Spanish coin of King Ferdinand.
The legend reads "NAVARR" and "FERNANDVS".
After Tyrone returns to New York, he makes a couple of bad decisions, and the coin turns into a pebble.
There is more on my website under "Coins in Movies".
I watched the film "The Luck of the Irish" on television several times when I was a kid,
sometimes with my father who was into Irish-related films.
The film is on DVD now and I watched it recently, and found that there was a coin involved in the story.
While visiting Ireland, American newspaper reporter Tyrone Power meets a Leprechaun who gives him a
gold coin as a "lucky coin".
Later local girl Anne Baxter identifies the coin as a Spanish Doubloon, sixteenth century,
from the (1588) Armada wreckage.
The coin is shown, it is, of course, an imitation prop coin.
The coin is apparently based on an old Spanish coin of King Ferdinand.
The legend reads "NAVARR" and "FERNANDVS".
After Tyrone returns to New York, he makes a couple of bad decisions, and the coin turns into a pebble.
There is more on my website under "Coins in Movies".
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I read that and had to laugh, because it reminded me of something that just happened to me. (I learned that the 10-year guaranty on my slab had expired, which will cost me a few grand. In effect, my coin had turned into a pebble!)
Anyway, cool pics!
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<< <i>On hopes that if my leprechaun coin turns into a pebble, it will at least be a Yap stone. >>
I hope your SDB doesn't explode when it happens.
Well, just Love coins, period.
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<< <i>On hopes that if my leprechaun coin turns into a pebble, it will at least be a Yap stone. >>
I hope your SDB doesn't explode when it happens. >>
True 'dat. One certainly wouldn't want to be standing around if the "pennies from heaven" were of the Yap kind.
But since my SDB is rather large, and "pebble" was specified, I'd risk it.
7jags- yes, the prop coin does rather resemble a gold excelente, I guess, but all the (double-) excelentes I've seen (pictures of) had facing portraits of both Ferdinand and Isabella?
Still, for a prop coin, they didn't do too bad a job of making it look Renaissance-ish.