The 1938 MGM film "Marie Antoinette" is loosely based on the life of 18th century French queen. Actress Norma Shearer plays Marie Antoinette and...
In the 1933 MGM film "Queen Christina", Swedish actress Greta Garbo plays the medieval Swedish queen, who, among other things, liked to dress as a...
In 2015 and 2016 I received emails from Community Films, a Minnesota-base television program producer. They stated that they had seen and liked my...
Minya Konka is the highest mountain in Szechuan, China and was first climbed by four Americans in 1932. They wrote a book about their adventures...
Remember the 2010 Boy Scout Commemorative Silver Dollar coin which had a girl on it and the controversy over that? Today's news story from the...
[IMG] City of Besançon silver Carolus 1542 Silver, 19mm, 1.44gm Obverse: Crowned bust of Charles V facing left / CAROLVS V IMPERATOR Reverse: Arms...
Not "Coins in Movies" but an exciting new topic. Today I was watching on the Turner Classic Movie Channel an old film called "Night into...
The 1935 film "Frisco Kid" is a period film set in San Francisco in 1854 during the California gold rush. James Cagney arrives in the city and...
The Washington, DC Museum of the Bible is set to open in November, 2017. The museum is owned by the wealthy Green family of Oklahoma, which owns...
The Byzantine Empire made these cup-shaped gold coins called Hyperpyrons from AD 1092 to 1352. These coins circulated far outside the Empire,...
The Eighteenth Amendment (alcohol prohibition) to the US Constitution was ratified in 1919 and that same year the US Congress passed the National...
The famous "stone money" of the Pacific Island of Yap get their feature film appearance. The 1954 Warner Brothers film "His Majesty O'Keefe" is...
My grandmother collected United States coins but somehow had this 48 page foreign coin buying catalog. Premium Catalog of Modern Foreign Coins...
This 1944 MGM film "National Velvet" has a scene where Elizabeth Taylor's mother gives her 100 gold sovereigns to enter her horse in England's...
BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police say thieves broke into the German capital's Bode Museum and made off with a massive 100-kilogram (221-pound) gold coin...
[IMG] Samuel Bridge Medal awarded to Grace Jackson in 1890 Silver, 34mm, 15.04gm The Samuel Bridge silver medals were awarded to the top male...
These "Coins of Ireland" animal coins were sold in sets in the 1950's and my father bought two of them. [IMG] Ireland Farthing 1953 [IMG]...
The 1942 MGM Red Skelton comedy film "Whistling in Dixie" has Red and his girlfriend Ann Rutherford in Georgia involved in a hunt for a...
Supposedly the last year that Chinese merchants chop marked coins was 1935 when China abandoned the silver standard. This is my latest, from...
From Trailing the Giant Panda by Theodore Roosevelt and Kermit Roosevelt, published in 1929 Here we stopped to arrange our money transfers. This...
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