Ætheling Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 I don't mean books or films about coins here, but rather have you ever been reading a fiction book or watching a film and suddenly what turns up? Well one notable example i can think of straight off of the top of my noggin, anyone here read Stephen King's It? The book is set in two decades, the late 1950s and the 1970s. The characters are having to relive a nightmare that happened to them as children in the late 1950s. And one character in a philosophical moment remembers how his father (or grandfather, i forget which) gave him some of the old silver dollars, King's description of the coins leaves you in no doubt that he's talking about Morgans and Peace dollars here. And if i recall correctly the character was carrying one around as a pocketpiece. The coins also ended up as part of the storyline rather than being just a side reminicense. The 1970s adult character remembered he'd had these coins as a child but he can't remember what happened to them. But as the horrors of their childhood that they'd thought they'd dealt with in the 1950s seemed to be resurfacing the memories began to trickle back, memories that should have been long buried and thus slowly the character remembers what happened to the dollars. They had melted them to make bullets. If you need to know more i suggest you read the book. (It's a good one!) So have you suddenly found coins turning up in stories or even films (and getting special mention) when you least expected it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 I can remember them in television shows, and in Movies, how many of us stopped the Titanic DVD at the scene where Kate Winslet hands Leonardo de Crapio a Barber Dime just to get the date off of the coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted October 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 I can remember them in television shows, and in Movies, how many of us stopped the Titanic DVD at the scene where Kate Winslet hands Leonardo de Crapio a Barber Dime just to get the date off of the coin. She did? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 She did? She was paying him for the naughty sketch he made of her in the parlour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted October 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 My attention must have been elsewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxseries Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Traditionally in the past with Japanese movies, very high rank officers or landlords would throw kobans or flash their obans to show their ranks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conder101 Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 The dime in Titanic is a 1912 Philadelphia in AU. The Director has it in a protective holder and carries it as a watch fob. Because of the way Kate Winslet was holding it in the movie the date was not visible. I often notice coins used in tv and movies. I have frequently seen them used on Gunsmoke (It's the best thing on at 5AM while I'm at work.) Now Gunsmoke is set in the 1870's and usually the coins shown are proper for the period. But there was one episode a while back where they were playing poker betting 20 dollars a hand where they showed a clear image of the table and they were using Saint-Gaudens Double eagles. In 1870's Kansas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stujoe Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 There was the Sacagawea episode of the Simpsons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tabbs Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Leonardo de Crapio Typo made intentionally? Christian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted October 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 I call him that all the time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Typo made intentionally? Christian It was too early in the morn, I had not had my tea and crumpets yet. I couldn't think of how to spell his name so I went literal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleBobo Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Yummy! I've been wanting to do this thread for a while! A couple of film coin appearances I have taken note of... In Seabiscuit, when Tobey Maguire wins a race on a farm he tells his parents that he won two dollars and he holds up two Peace dollars to prove it. In the Untouchables when Eliot Ness makes Frank Nitti empty his pockets outside the courtroom, he dumps two mercury dimes and a SLQ. All well circulated and reverse side up. On last weeks episode of Rome Cleopatra was admiring the profile of Caesar on a coin. I can't think of how many times I have tried to spot the coinage types and failed while watching Deadwood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Posted October 23, 2005 Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 I can remember them in television shows, and in Movies, how many of us stopped the Titanic DVD at the scene where Kate Winslet hands Leonardo de Crapio a Barber Dime just to get the date off of the coin And I thought she just gave him a couple of thrupenny bits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtryka Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Goonies was on television yesterday, and they found one-eyed willy's pirate ship with all sorts of gold coins, though they were supposed to be Spanish, so I couldn't tell exactly what they were! And didn't Titanic also have the large size notes at the end when the bad guys were trying to bribe their way to a lifeboat? To me those looked like series 1914 FRNs which would have been 2 years too early for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
28Plain Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Most recently, the film with Matthew MacConaughey (sp?) in which a celebrity salvage crew is in Nigeria and an artifact dealer shows the central character what is supposed to be a "Confederate gold dollar". The coin is the size of a Morgan, supposedly struck in gold as a specimen, one of six struck at a nonexistent Richmond mint. I had already given the film about twelve raspberries for the high BS level (less than 15 minutes into the sorry thing), and this scene contributed to my decision shortly thereafter to stop wasting time watching it. Hollywood seems infested with imbeciles who have no knowledge of history, or of anything else besides Marxist social justice dogma..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corina Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Well In goodbye America They used the Old Philippine Coins What types Of Coins Used I have No idea Very good movie to Watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akdrv Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Not a coin, but still worth mentioning. "Coming to America" Eddie Murphy pounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UncleBobo Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 My most disappointing coin moment in movies was the silver dollar that Two-Face flips in Batman Forever. Instead of using an existing silver dollar design they made up their own ugly one. Well, I should add that compared to everything else in Batman Forever the coin actually looks not too bad!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccg Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 To Kill a Mockingbird, 1900 and 1906 IHCs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ætheling Posted October 24, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Goonies was on television yesterday, and they found one-eyed willy's pirate ship with all sorts of gold coins, though they were supposed to be Spanish, so I couldn't tell exactly what they were! That's after they found all those coins with Martin Sheen on them. Which makes me think, the Goonies was filmed in 1985. If they really had been down a wishing well and people had been throwing money down there presumably for several decades, how many of those coins would be silver? Forget the gold coins on the ship, i'd be scouring through the money in the well for the silver! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josemartins Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 Not a film or a book, but i remember Finley Quaye's music video for "Sunday Shining" (a version of Bob Marley's "Sun is Shining"), where a very worn Peace Dollar was used as the main metaphor... Jose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conder101 Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 They showed that 100 pound note in the movie Coming to America, but in a deleted scene they also used Zumunda coins. I have one of those "coins". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbycoin Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 The Movie "National Treasure" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368891/) showed many many American banknotes and Coins. -Bobby Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiffibunny Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 It's kind of funny that this thread started. I just watched Sahara. And a few weeks ago I was watching a show called Wild West Tech, about the old west and they showed a robbery, the "cowboy" had a stack of bills flipping through them it happened real fast but Patrick said, "look at that!" He paused it and they were the brand new 50's. We got a big kick out of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LostDutchman Posted October 24, 2005 Report Share Posted October 24, 2005 The remake of "Dennis the Menace" Dennis was with the theif played by Christopher Lloyd. He was trying to recover Mr. Wilsons collection of american gold coins......HA bet nobody thought of that one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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