Coins on TV
silver2000
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Now that I’m on virus furlough, I have a little time to participate in the forums. I might be what you guys would call the ultimate lurker, been here since 2001 learning a lot from all of you! Thanks! Anyways, watching the Twilight Zone last night, season 3 episode 26 “Little Girl Lost” a guy tosses a Franklin half through a portal into another dimension. You have to pause it just right, the coin is in his hand for an instant but u can just make it out!
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Heavy!
Coins on television programs are an interesting subject.
For example, coins are made out of silver...
...in the Twilight Zone.
The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin
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Wow you are the ULTIMATE lurker. Almost 20 years and 14 posts 😀 That’s amazing.
Sweet Franklin mention. My second favorite type.
"Today the crumbs, tomorrow the
loaf. Perhaps someday the whole damn boulangerie." - fictional Jack Rackham
That episode scared to poop outta me when I was a kid. I went to bed feeling the wall next to my bed for a portal.....
@silver2000...Welcome to participation....That is a lot of lurking....Hope to see you around more often. Cheers, RickO
The Perry Mason episode "Case Of The Captain's Coins" was on this week revolving around a Malayan life-saving medal that determined the heir to a shipping company.
(Spoiler Alert!)
Perry successfully defended his accused client through questioning that revealed the true murderer. The medal was ugly.
Christopher Reeves in "Somewhere in Time" Big turn moment in movie.
That dreaded PENNY!
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Perry Mason also had an episode based around the the Confederate Half Dollar minted at New Orleans. Neat episode.
Just watched an episode of NCIS that I had DVR'd and the story was based around an 1870-S Seated Liberty Dollar. They said there were only 12 in the world but the one they found was #13. Said to be worth over 1 Million.
The opening scene from the movie "Ghost" featured an 1898 Indian cent.
Of course there is the obligatory mention of the iconic original Hawaii Five-O episode that involved the then $100,000 nickel.
Here is an excerpt of one of my posts on the below linked thread:
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 real life theft subject of this thread. 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.
For any not familiar with the celebrity history of this coin, as above noted it was the first coin to sell for $100,000. In 2010 it was sold to an undisclosed party for the sum of $3,737,500.
As a post note, the below linked thread contains an interesting discussion regarding the fact that the actual 1913 Liberty Head Nickel was pictured on the show itself.
https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/comment/11851545#Comment_11851545
I remember watching that episode of the Twilight Zone the first time it ran, but I didn’t remember the father tossing in a coin. Scary as hell episode.
We watched this episode at our local coin club in January. It was a hoot.
Gonna get me a $50 Octagonal someday. Some. Day.
How about the $3 Gold rings Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci wear in the Irishman on Netflix?
https://www.denofgeek.com/culture/the-irishman-ring-explained/
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
There's an old thread somewhere, that's pretty big if memory serves, about coins in tv/movies that has an impressive list.
Yeah, then later, a penny is used by Patrick Swayze to show Demi Moore that he is the one holding the penny going up the wall!
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.New movie Knives out. The inspector flips a coin from time to time. Pretty sure I saw a Morgan dollar.
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That looks like a type 3 gold dollar.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
As we know Buddy Ebsen was a coin collector and the Beverly Hillbillies had several shows dealing with coins. One of my favorite lines is from the first episode when Jed explains how he's being paid for the oil. He said "I've heard of gold dollars, silver dollars and paper dollars" as he was explaining how he had never heard of "million dollars." Another episode had Mr. Drysdale trying to get him to follow a hobby, one of which was coin collecting. Drysdale showed him an album of coins which contained an 1894 S Barber dime.
My wife has been binge watching NCIS and she rushed and got me as they had an episode that revolved heavily around an 1870-s seated dollar.
https://ew.com/recap/ncis-season-17-episode-16/
Several decades ago there was an episode of Dennis the Menace where Dennis's neighbor Mr. Wilson showed Dennis his collection of silver dollars.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
NYC based Law And Order has had several episodes with coins involved -- Paul Bosco mentioned to me that the prop people for that show had rented items from his Manhattan store multiple times (primarily non-coin IIRC).
Too big to be the gold dollar, although both coins do use the same obverse design.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
It's been a couple months since I watched that but yes, I think I recall this as well.
Nothing is as expensive as free money.
FWIW, the Ilikai Hotel in which the Honolulu Coin show was being held in the Hawaii Five-O TV episode still operates today and is also known for having been the hotel that Elvis Presley would stay at when he came to Hawaii for his multiple made in Hawaii films. Reportedly fans would gather outside and he would wave from his balcony and Elvis may have made an appearance from the hotel in one of his movies.
I believe actual coin shows were held there at the Ilikai in the day before the existence of convention centers and it is possible that the iconic episode's coin show scenes were filmed at a then scheduled coin show. Maybe some here from the Islands can confirm and/or add more details.