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'Rosebud' Bryan Dollar ?

jonathanbjonathanb Posts: 3,754 ✭✭✭✭✭
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This is almost Schornstein 817. The obverse matches. The reverse almost matches, but this one has ROSE BUD on the bottom where Schornstein 817 has only a blank space.

I'm not finding anything useful in Schornstein, or in the NNP either.

Has anyone seen this piece before? (Bonus points: Does anyone have a clue why a Bryan Dollar would say ROSE BUD?)


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  • thebeavthebeav Posts: 3,915 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Movie prop money from "Citizen Kane "?

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  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    'Cause 16:1 was tough sledding.... ;)

  • BillDugan1959BillDugan1959 Posts: 3,821 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Much later Movie money for 'Citizen Kane'?

    I'm half serious.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 34,814 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Maybe "rose bud" had a symbolism well before Wells used it the film. The simple way of saying it is, "I wish I had made different choices."

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  • CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 32,749 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The style of the lettering of the addition is rather cruder than the rest of the lettering. Since these were cast, might someone have taken an original cast medal, taken molds off of that, added the "ROSE BUD" to the mold and then cast a copy from the revised molds?

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  • SCDHunterSCDHunter Posts: 686 ✭✭✭

    Awesome find jonathanb!

  • WillieBoyd2WillieBoyd2 Posts: 5,272 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited February 16, 2018 9:06AM

    There are no coins in the Orson Welles film "Citizen Kane" (1941).

    The "Rosebud" in the film is a children's sled.

    :)

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