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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24630506, member: 26430&quot;]&quot;Coins in movies&quot; is an interesting topic I hadn&#039;t thought much about before... But I collect ancient coins with interesting &quot;object biographies&quot; or &quot;backstories.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I have coins that have been featured in numismatic books, academic journals, metallurgical studies, coin magazines, websites, Youtube videos, college lectures, museum exhibits, and so on... but as of yet, no movies!</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s something I&#039;ll have to keep an eye out for. I knew Peter Weller was a PhD historian, and it sounds familiar that he collects coins, but I must&#039;ve forgotten.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another interesting cinematic collector of ancient coins...</p><p><br /></p><p>Buddy Ebsen -- AKA Jed Clampett of &quot;The Beverly Hillbillies&quot;!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/ahcwyo.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Image-1-1.jpg?resize=768%2C947&amp;ssl=1" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I do not have any of his collection coins to my knowledge -- and I have no reason to believe he ever had any on screen in the show -- but I have the catalog annotated in my provenance research notes/database (the ancients are all from Ebsen Coll. portion of the sale, I don&#039;t annotate the non-ancient parts):</p><ul> <li>Superior Galleries, 7 June 1987, <a href="https://archive.org/details/edwardsmetcalfbu1987supe/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/edwardsmetcalfbu1987supe/" rel="nofollow">Edwards Metcalf &amp; <b>Buddy Ebsen Collection</b></a> = 780 lots ancient mostly ill. inline (plus 2 color plates; Lots 4001 – 4780, incl. some groups = Session One), all from the Ebsen Collection (several page bio), some provenances throughout (surely others can be found, considering the ex. high quality), many very high quality Greek AR incl. Dekadrachms of Kimon &amp; Euainetos and Ptolemy II/Arsinoe II, 6 Lots (9 Coins) of Hermias Drachms but only 4 Lots (5 coins) as “ex Sitichoro Hoard,” pair of rare Parthian/Persis Diobols, &amp; extensive gold, the Greek AV incl. many Alexander III Staters, Athens Stater, many Ptolemaic large AV, several RRC AV (incl. J.P. Morgan 60 Asses &amp; sev. Caesar Aureii), and RIC incl. Claudius II Goth. Eight-Aurei medallion, very late/end-of-empire Roman AV; Greek (4001-4282A, AR, AV-EL, some AE Judaean &amp; RPC), RRC (4283 – 4340, AR AV AE [3 Aes Grave &amp; some struck]), RIC (4341-4709, AV AR, plenty of AE, some RPC [mainly 3rd cent., most AR]), Byzantine et al. (4341-4480, mostly AV-EL, few AR, incl. Medieval/Dark Ages, Crusader, Goth, Vandal, Lombard, some rarer, etc.);</li> </ul><p>If I can remember some of the other actors with published catalogs/collections&nbsp; I&#039;ll share them too... For now, the one famous performer that comes to mind is the world-famous opera singer Enrico Caruso (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Caruso" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Caruso" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Caruso</a>), whose collection was dispersed in a classic pair of sales in 1923, <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000057724447&amp;view=thumb&amp;seq=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pst.000057724447&amp;view=thumb&amp;seq=1" rel="nofollow">ancient &amp; world gold from Italian dealer Canessa</a> (unfortunately low-quality images on the plates at Hathitrust) </p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b><span style="color: #b30000">EDIT</span>: <a href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3043373j.r=canessa%20carusso?rk=21459;2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3043373j.r=canessa%20carusso?rk=21459;2" rel="nofollow">much better copy here on Gallica</a></b></p><p><br /></p><p>&amp; the <a href="https://archive.org/details/ancientmodernfor00chap/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/ancientmodernfor00chap/" rel="nofollow">mostly non-ancient sale</a> a few months later by American cataloger Henry Chapman).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1566654[/ATTACH]</p><p>Apparently he did make a film or two, though!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1566655[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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