Rare coins in tv shows.
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Back in the 1970s an episode of Hawaii Five-O did an episode using an authentic 1913 Liberty "v" nickel. If that happened today what do you think it would be like on set? What coin would it be and how would it be used in the episode.
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There would be armed guards and personnel screening.... Cheers, RickO
The additional costs involved to do these (regrettable, in this day and age) required precautions would far outweigh costs to generate a reasonable fake coin and use that one on set.
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Security guards would not have been needed while filming this episode in Hawaii.
The only real 1913 nickel shown was a still photograph from the recent coin auction which
established the price used in the title.
The actual coin was not used in the television show.
Real 1903 and 1910 nickels were used in the program but these are not rare coins.
Hawaii Five-O 1910 Liberty Nickel
Some photographs of other rare coins were used, they came from professional coin dealers
who were credited at the end of the program.
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Perry Mason becomes involved in a case involving avid coin collectors, fake coins, fraud - and murder. It all begins when Paul Drake is hired by Minerva Doubleday whose Uncle Homer Doubleday owns a local coin shop. She wants Drake to act as a go between in delivering a rare 1861 Confederate half dollar to an anonymous buyer who has agreed to pay $50,000 for the coin. She's afraid for her own safety so gets Drake to follow the buyers elaborate instructions. Both Drake and Perry wonder if the coin is real and Perry visits an acquaintance, Howard Hopkins, to see if it's real. Hopkins has made many efforts to buy the rare coin but Doubleday refuses to sell to him due to previous interactions. Drake is intercepted along the way and redirected back to Doubleday's coin shop where he finds Minerva standing holding a gun over the body of George Parsons, another who was very interested in the coin. Parsons was blackmailing Doubleday over fake coins he made for Parsons. Perry defends Minerva ... Written by garykmcd
Any idea what the name of that episode was? I'm searching youtube for the full show just so I can check it out but having no success.
Quite an interesting episode about rare coin counterfeiting in the 1960's.
It's on my website under "Coins on Television".
Confederate Half Dollar from the Perry Mason episode
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Perry Mason Confederate Half Dollar episode is "The Case of the Wooden Nickels" (1964).
Quite an interesting episode about rare coin counterfeiting in the 1960's.
It's on my website under "Coins on Television".
Confederate Half Dollar from the Perry Mason episode
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I stumbled across this website which has 24 TV Shows with still shots of the coins.
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A few weeks ago I was watching an old B/W episode of the western "Laramie". There was a brief glimpse of a silver dollar reverse. I believe it was a Morgan.
Just finished watching the last episode of the latest season of Man in the High Castle. In the episode a character slaps down a pocketfull of coins - all of them seemingly totally incongruous: a Franklin half alongside a Canadian dollar coin from the 80s or 90s, and some others I couldn't discern.
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There is another Perry Mason episode - "The Case of Captain's Coins" that hinges on a rare medal from Malaya.
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@PCGSPhoto I hope next season they show some of the coins and currency. I'd be very interested to see how they look in that universe.
Much like movie/TV about firearms, they usually get the information wrong. My wife gets upset with me if we are watching a show and firearms are involved... especially when talking forensics... and I point out how '..that is impossible..'.... she says "It's only a movie dear..."
Cheers, RickO
I'll bet anything with less than 50 existing will have armed guards and a serious network of other security. Also, probably coins over $1,000,000
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Regarding the Hawaii Five-0 TV show referenced by the OP in the opening post, below is some added commentary:
Sometimes Life imitates Art. Larry Briggs (founder of SEGS coin grading service) was recently robbed at a coin show in Pennsylvania. The thief asked to see some coins and then with the aid of a distraction was able to make off with them. The thief was later captured after having attempted to pawn the stolen goods off at a Pawn Shop.
In the 1973 episode of Hawaii Five-0 titled, "The $100,000 Dollar Nickel" (which was based on the theft of the Olsen Specimen of the 1913 Liberty Head Nickel that had just set the record for the price paid for a single coin the year prior in 1972), there was an interesting parallel to the above described real life theft. In both cases the coin(s) were stolen at a coin show by a thief who used a distraction. In the fictional TV episode the con artist's attractive wife provides the distraction as character Arnie Price examines a dealer's coins at the coin show being held in Waikiki's Ilikai Hotel. In the theft of the Larry Briggs coins, also at a coin show, the reportings I have read also reference a distraction used by the thief.
Pictured above is my photo of the Olsen Specimen a/k/a the Hawaii Five-0 coin when it was present at an ANA coin show in Portland, Oregon where I took this photo. For those not familiar with the celebrity history of this coin, as above noted it was the first coin to sell for $100,000. Most recently it was sold to an undisclosed party for the sum of $3,737,500 and has apparently not been seen publicly since its most recent known sale in 2010.
As many are aware, the Hawaii Five-0 show has been brought back and is currently in its seventh season. In many of the episodes homage is paid to the original series. By way of example, Jack Lord, the actor who played the original Detective Steve McGarrett was recreated by CGI for an appearance this season.
I was an extra in Season Four and again got a call from Hawaii Five-0 Casting for this past Fall although scheduling conflicts intervened. I have suggested that another rare coin themed episode be created for the current series. That is a show on which I would welcome the opportunity to once again share screen time. (Maybe I should offer to help write the script.
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I don't think it was a rare one, but in Dolly Parton's "A Christmas of many colors" There is a good shot of some old pocket change, one of the coins being a Standing Liberty quarter. I thought it was so cool.
An Andy Griffith episode has Andy duping Barney into investing in a nickel with the "buffalo facing the wrong way." Classic!
If anyone wants to watch it. The nickel bit is in the 1st four minutes.
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Yes, the Andy Griffith one was great.
On 'Dennis the Menace', his neighbor, Mr. Wilson, was quite the coin collector. There were many episodes having to do with coins. Probably instrumental in piquing my interest as a child.
I believe I saw in the trailer for A Dog's Life some St. Gaudens Double eagles
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