Coins in Movies or on Television

I purchased all of the NCIS series on Amazon and watch about an episode every day during "happy hour"; I know, get a life. I am going through them, again, currently on season 4 and oddly there were three episodes in a row involving coins to some degree.

S4-E3 - hotel heist where a coin exhibition is being held. Only a few brief shots of documents on the coins are shown, so not much in the way of photos.



S4-E4 - beginning of the show a bag of quarters falls from a dead marine's car when the door is opened. Later, a phone call from a kidnapper is analyzed, there is an odd, rhythmic "plopping" sound in the background. While investigating a tip Ziva and McGee hear a similar noise; turns out to be a cash-for-coins machine.



S4-E5 - dead marine has multiple fiancés, also has a stolen bag of gold coins hanging from the rafters in a storage unit, 120 ounces worth

 

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Google has plenty of Hawaii Five-O images.



But not much of anything else that I can find. There's Ingrid Bergman fliping a coin in Casablanca--"Franc for your thoughts." There's the fake coin that Leonard Nimoy was trying to trade to a Coin/Stamp collecting drug lord in Mission Impossible--Chico. There's an amusing scene in that one where the drug lord is weighing the fake coin on some huge produce scale. There's the bags-O-Gold in Good Bad Ugly. Found an image for that.



I wouldn't mind struggling like that for a bag of Double Eagles. There's also the dimes Clint Eastwood shot at someone from a shotgun in one his Spaghetti Westerns. And then told the corpse to "Keep the Change." There was a shot of silver coins that some bandits had in Butch Cassidy and Sundance for the few seconds that they still lived.

And not in a movie but a real event there's the coin that Buddy Holly flipped to see who would fly with him on the only seat left: Tommy Allsup, a guitarist touring with Holly or Ritchie Valens. Ritchie "won" and Tommy lived to play another day. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone ever asked him what kind coin it was. Too tacky to ask, I guess. (It was probably a quarter. )

R.I.P Buddy, Big Bopper, Ritchie and pilot.

 

That sounds like an episode from the old 1970's S.W.A.T. TV series from 1975-76.

Remember that funky theme sound ?

 

Just watched "Becky" last night, and there's a scene where Becky tosses a 2007 Canadian quarter from the top of her fort to distract the bad guy into thinking it's the key the bad guys are looking for. (Spoiler: She then ziplines down on top of him and slaughters him with a broken ruler and a bundle of pencils. The fate of the quarter is unknown.)