The 1918 short "Just Rambling Along" features a very young Stan Laurel who finds himself with a cafe tab that he can't pay. A woman sitting at his table had secretly swapped her considerably more expensive tab for his. Right after he looks at his tab in shock, the film cuts to a wavering, blurry and poorly shot closeup featuring the reverse of what looks like a Barber dime. It's not hard to imagine why the filmmakers chose the reverse of the Barber over the then recently released Mercury - the words "One Dime" show up pretty prominently, especially on the grainy film of the time, but Barbers were likely still circulating heavily in 1918 anyway. It's actually a funny little movie and available on YouTube for those of you looking for an old coin in an old movie experience.
NCR. I would imagine that plenty of seated dimes were in circulation along with the Barbers. The Mercs had just been introduced. In the Twilight Zone episode when the quarter stands on edge in the newspaper box, you can see all kinds of coins in there Mercs, SLQ's etc. And that was only the early 60's.
Thank you for the notice about the Stan Laurel film with the dime. Gunsmoke - Trail of Bloodshed (1974) scene No peace dollars in this Gunsmoke episode!
I see a Walker and Merc in there. I do recall an SLQ. There were 2 scenes with the box of money. This is the early one. There are diff coins later when the quarter gets knocked down.
Could have been a Seated dime as well - those were still in circulation and they had the same reverse as the Barber after 1860.
You can also see a Franklin in there (which was still being minted when this episode came out). The episode was called "A Penny for Your Thoughts" and starred Dick York of Bewitched fame. While the quarter was on edge, he could read minds. When it fell over, he lost the ability but had dramatically changed his life as a result. Here's a couple other shots I found on the web.
So Festus was a time traveler who brought those St Gaudens back from the 20th century to 1870's Kansas?
Oooh, there's the SLQ, in the opener. I did notice the Franklin, but that was a modern coin when this episode aired.
In the 1987 movie The Untouchables set during prohibition and starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery, there is a scene where Elliott Ness, played by Costner, confronts Frank Nitti, played by Billy Drago. Nitti is in the gallery at the trial of Al Capone and Ness suspects he is armed. Ness and the bailiff escort him out and tell him to "empty his pockets". It's not real clear, but a Standing Liberty Quarter can be seen on the table in the courthouse. Later, Nitti is killed by Ness and he says one of my favorite lines in movies "He's in the car". You gotta see it.
In the first “Fantastic Beasts” movie that came out a few years ago, a Barber dime takes a slow-motion trip down the steps of a bank building. I did not catch the date of the dime, but the movie is set in 1926 or ‘27.