Coins in Movies

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Wasn't that movie Roxanne? (I'm not sure)

A Simple Twist of Fate?

A Simple Twist Of Fate


1984. Michael McCann (Martin) is a reclusive furniture-maker who lives in a cabin in the woods, with a collection of gold coins; years earlier, his life was shattered when he learned his wife was pregnant by another man. Nearby is the estate of the Kennedy-esque Newland family, which operates a granite quarry. John Newland (Gabriel Byrne) is an aspiring politician with a dark secret--he's fathered an illegitimate daughter by an heroin addict. One winter night, John's drunken brother Tanny Newland (Stephen Baldwin) crashes his car and kills a woman. Panicked, he flees the accident scene, breaks into McCann's home, steals the coin collection, and disappears into the night. Soon after, the mother of John Newland's child makes her way through a snowstorm to McCann's house, where she collapses and dies, leaving the child on his doorstep. McCann adopts the baby, whom he names Mathilda. As years pass, with the guidance of local shopkeeper Mrs. Simon (Catherine O'Hara), he becomes the world's most doting father.

Present day. Mathilda (Alana Austin) is now a bright, engaging 10-year-old; McCann has become a well-liked member of the community. John Newland (now a Congressman) is planning to drain the quarry and create lakefront property that will make him fabulously wealthy. However, he feels that life is empty because he and his wife (Laura Linney) have been unable to have children. He reveals that Mathilda is in fact his daughter and sues for custody. At the trial, McCann is portrayed as an excellent father who has devoted his life to Mathilda, but it is established that he's unable to provide for her future education. Mathilda testifies that she wants to live with McCann. Regardless, the judge intends to rule in favor of the wealthy Newlands. Just then, news comes that Tanny's remains have been found in the drained quarry--along with McCann's valuable coins. Mathilda is allowed to stay with her true father, the newly rich Michael McCann.

Ghost - Indian head cent
FM - 1955DDO cent

@jonesy said:
Ghost - Indian head cent
FM - 1955DDO cent

Also, in the movie, "Ghost ", using a Lincoln cent, played a key part in that same movie. When Demi Moore first realized that Patrick Swayze was right there in the same room.

Ray Donovan had an episode when Jon Voight character has a flash back of an armored car robbery of gold $20.

@USSID17

Casino...specifically, the hard count room.

Tin Cup where Costner uses a worn Mercury dime as a golf ball marker.

In the Batman movie The Dark Knight, Harvey Dent (Two-Face) has a 1922 Peace Dollar(two-sided obverse) that he uses to decide if people live/die. In this scene he is holding the coin up to the joker to decide his fate.

While not a coin, the Imperial Seal as an item of value exceeding money was the subject of the Shanghai Noon sequel, Shanghai Knights.

Here is a screen shot from the movie as Jackie Chan's character holds the Imperial Seal:

And here is the prop as I acquired it in an auction:

Remember...The knomemobile. I may have that title wrong. Walt Disney production.
There had to be coins .

Two Faces' double headed coin from Batman.

@1northcoin said:
While not a coin, the Imperial Seal as an item of value exceeding money was the subject of the Shanghai Noon sequel, Shanghai Knights.

Here is a screen shot from the movie as Jackie Chan's character holds the Imperial Seal:

And here is the prop as I acquired it in an auction:

@1northcoin said:

@PerryHall said:
@1northcoin That seal is really cool.

Thanks.

I also picked up the shield with crossed swords that hung in the Tower of London ? from which Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson took their swords to fight up to the top of the clock tower in one of the final scenes.

Here is a clip from one of the movie trailers which shows the hanging shield along with Jackie Chan's character grasping one of the swords he pulled from it.

And here the shield and swords are seen as I photographed them after one the swords came loose in an earthquake. and fell onto my desk. Luckily I wasn't seated there at the time to get stabbed.

(The crossbow seen to its right was a movie prop as well in the Shanghai Knights movie and was seen in one of the opening scenes in China at the Imperial Palace when the keeper of the Imperial Seal was shot by it and the perpetrator absconded to London with the Imperial Seal.)

@amwldcoin said:
If all the coins shown in the old western movies and series were mentioned here this would become 1 of the longest threads on the forum!

Excellent point.

Something about Westerns and coins. Probably tied to how the discovery of silver and gold in the American West is so intrinsically tied to the minting of large sized movie centric coins like the Double Eagles and Silver Dollars.

Case in point, the 1964 Clint Eastwood Spaghetti Western Classic - "A Fist Full of Dollars." (Even my prior posted Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson Shanghai series flicks qualify as Westerns.)

John Wick. The coin is an essential part of the movie and can actually be purchased!!!
(John Wick 4 to be released soon!)

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