Coins in Movies or on Television

In the 1942 movie "Road to Morocco" Bing Crosby tells Bob Hope that he has a 1911 Buffalo Nickel.


"Road to Morocco" Bing Crosby and Bob Hope

Unfortunately he doesn't show the coin to the audience.

 

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The Andy Griffith show. " Mayberry on Record". The 1936s Buffalo Nickel episode.
The Andy Griffith Show - Mayberry on Record (1961) - Coins on Television (brianrxm.com)

 

I remember an episode of The Beverly hillbillies where Jed clampett shows an album filled with Barber half dollars. Buddy Ebson was a collector, so no doubt it came from his personal collection.

 

Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca: "Franc for your thoughts."

 

More recent, but Harvey Dent had a lucky peace dollar in The Dark Knight (Batman). The Christopher Nolan film.

 

A simple twist of fate

 

James bond , goldfinger

 

Dennis the Menace episode where Dennis spends a rare dime from Mr Wilson's collection in a coin op machine.

 

I drool over every episode of The Twilight Zone. Every time there is a coin involved, it is a goodie.

 

Frank Costanza had a sssssilver dollar collection.

 

James Bond - a strip of British gold sovereigns mounted in a plastic strip that was part of his "briefcase of tricks" which included a dagger and an exploding lock unless you turned the handles correctly. That was in From Russia with Love. He grabbed the attench of bad boy, Robert Shaw, with the gold coins.

They had a famous fight in a small railroad train compartment. According the special features, that scene was very hard to stage in the confined area. I sometimes think of collecting a strip of sovereigns like that.

On Saturday, I was watching an old Sherlock Holmes movie, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. In one brief scene, Sherlock tipped a young boy who was cleaning his house a sixpence. The piece was set in 1894, and I happened to have an 1894 sixpence in front of me. The coin Sherlock gave him was way too big. A sixpence from then is a little bigger than a dime.

 

Today is actress Julie Newmar's birthday August 16.

Julie Newmar's first credited film, using the name Julie Newmeyer, was the 1953 film "Serpent of the Nile".

She was a dancer and appeared in a scene where Cleopatra (Rhonda Fleming) proposes an alliance with Mark Antony (Raymond Burr).

Antony asks Cleopatra if she has the money to support an alliance and she shows him the money.


Mark Antony and Cleopatra confer


Dancing girls push wagon with gold statue


Wagon coin display


Golden Girl (Julie Newmar covered with gold paint)

Julie Newmar performs a solo dance for about four minutes.

 

Just watched a so-so movie called Captive State in which a young boy goes to use a pay phone and puts in a standing liberty quarter!!! I did a double-take and went back to make sure.

 

Winchester 76.
Fist Full of Dollars.
The Seventh Coin.
Three Coins In A Fountain.
The Maltese Falcon.
John Wick.
No Country For Old Men.
Bridge Of Spies.
Road To Perdition.
Throw Momma From The Train.
Tombstone.
The Dark Knight.
Casino.
American Buffalo.
The Asphalt Jungle.
Buffalo Bill.
The FBI.

Now I am becoming boring, so I will stop (for now).

 

My favorite will always be the Perry Mason episode where Paul Drake uses a Confederate half dollar to buy a pack of smokes. James

 

I don't know if anyone else on here gets a channel called METV, but by a quirk of fate the very Perry Mason episode I mentioned before is on TV Friday night. It is called the "Case of the wooden nickels" or something like that. The way they handle the coins in the show is priceless. James

 

Not coins and never shown, but the Columbo episode "Fade Into Murder" was on TV here Saturday night. The future murder victim wants her blackmail money in silver certificates as usual, and says "Silver Certificates. I would paper my bedroom with them if I could." Towards the end of the episode, we find out that she has willed a small fortune in "silver certificates" to an alternate suspect that are in a safety deposit box in Canada, along with half a million in IOUs from the actual murderer. It wasn't clear to me if these were silver certificates as in the old currency, or "certificates for silver" (but I have no idea what that means). Because silver certificates were such a big plot point, I thought of this thread.

The villain was played by William Shatner (Captain Kirk), with a cameo appearance from Walter Koenig (Chekov) as Sgt Johnson.

 

A cistophorus of Augustus showing the Egyptian Sphnix reverse was featured on the movie Screamers or Scanners. The coin was brought to an outpost on Mars or somewhere by the director of the facility. Will look for the clip.

 

In the opening credits of "To Kill a Mocking Bird", several Indian Head cents can be seen in one of the kids' junk box.

 

Kramer tries to pay for a calzone. (Lots of other plot lines woven into this clip...)