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Coins in Movies - Frisco Kid (1935) - James Cagney is shown the money

WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,237 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited May 22, 2024 7:48PM in U.S. Coin Forum

The 1935 film "Frisco Kid" is a period film set in San Francisco in 1854 during the California gold rush.

James Cagney arrives in the city and becomes an entrepreneur in the city's infamous Barbary Coast vice district.

The film is pretty ordinary until James is shown a tray of coins, then appears one of the finest scenes of coins in a film.

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These are examples of film studio prop coins, including ones copied from the "Barber" design and ones copied from the old Spanish eight reales.

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More money, and a man weighing gold dust.

Coincidentally, the first San Francisco Mint opened in 1854, conveniently located in the Barbary Coast.

:)

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,501 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice screen grab!

    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.
  • CoinstartledCoinstartled Posts: 10,135 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 26, 2017 9:06AM

    Hell with the coins...look at Margaret Lindsay.

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Nice stacks of coins... in both shots.... There are people today who can do that with real coins... check out some of the pictures on the PM forum.... Cheers, RickO

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