Coins in Movies - Dime with a Halo (1963) Mercury 1929

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  1. willieboyd2

    willieboyd2 First Class Poster

    There was an interesting film on television this morning, "Dime with a Halo", made by MGM in 1963.

    The dime, a 1929 Mercury, only makes an appearance in the title.

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    "Dime with a Halo" title coin

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    "Dime with a Halo" title name

    A group of street kids in Tijuana Mexico steal a dime from a church collection box and use it as part of a bet on a horse race.

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    "Dime with a Halo" collection box theft
    This dime does look like a Mercury dime also.

    Mercury dimes (Winged Liberty Head dimes) were in circulation then.

    :)
     
    willieboyd2, Mar 13, 2020
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  3. louis a bencze

    louis a bencze Active Member

    Wasn't there a Hawaii Five O episode that featured a 1913 V Nickel.Yes season 6 episode 14
     
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  4. J.T. Parker

    J.T. Parker Well-Known Member

    Davis Lynch 's 'Wild at Heart' 1990 The Assasin's Ike Dollar
    & who can forget Javier Bardem's (another pyscho assassin?)
    flipping that coin for life or death in 'No Country For Old Men' 2007?
    Is there perhaps a pattern emerging....LOL!
    J.T.
     
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  5. vintagemintage

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  6. Kevin Mader

    Kevin Mader Fellow Coin Enthusiast Supporter

    I think your second Mercury is a larger denomination. Probably a quarter? What do you think?
     
    Kevin Mader, Mar 13, 2020
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  7. Long Beard

    Long Beard Well-Known Member

    Many westerns feature coins in the gambling saloons.
     
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  8. stairstars

    stairstars Well-Known Member

    Not a real coin, but Garbo's QUEEN CHRISTINA (1933) has a fantasy thaler with Garbo's visage on it well shown in the film. The first image is a screen grab - B/W, of course. The second what it looks like in reality.
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  9. vintagemintage

    vintagemintage Well-Known Member

    A Military Challenge Coin

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  10. willieboyd2

    willieboyd2 First Class Poster

    A similar Greta Garbo prop coin without the Swedish legend appears in the 1945 MGM film "Yolanda and the Thief".

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    Yolanda and the Thief (1945) Greta Garbo prop coin

    :)
     
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