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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 3283419, member: 4910&quot;]I watched this film recently and saw the Roman coin in it.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_bishopswife_cary.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Cary Grant holding the coin</p><p><br /></p><p>Early in the film Julia, the bishop&#039;s wife (Loretta Young), wearing gloves, holds the coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_bishopswife_romancoin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The Roman coin obverse and reverse</p><p><br /></p><p>The round marks on the images are from the black gloves that Julia (Loretta Young) is wearing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin appears to be a sestertius of the Roman Emperor Trajan who ruled from AD 98 to 117 and appears similar to a coin shown in Roman Imperial Coins as Trajan RIC 503 with Pax on the reverse.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/trajan/t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/trajan/t.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/trajan/t.html</a></p><p>Note the captive&#039;s head below Pax&#039;s foot.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later the angel Dudley (Cary Grant) explains the coin to Professor Wutheridge (Monty Woolley)</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>This is one of the rarest of all antiquities.</p><p>Only 100 of these coins were minted by Julius Caesar 2,000 years ago.</p><p>That was when Cleopatra visited Rome.</p><p>Presumably, these coins were used to pay her hotel bill.</p><p>Nobody knew about it except Caesar&#039;s wife.</p><p>She did not share her husband&#039;s admiration for Cleopatra.</p><p>So she had these coins destroyed. Melted into ornaments for herself.</p><p>This is the one she missed.</p><p>It&#039;s an unwritten chapter in history, and you, professor, will write it.</p><p><br /></p></blockquote><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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