It would be super cool to own Two-Face's peace dollar. Or have a doubloon used in the Buttercream Gang movie, you know the one. Oh! And how about the penny that Lucy and Ethel dropped in the sewer after searching BWR? Or the (what key date again?) nickel accidentally spent by, who was it, the Three Stooges? Are these bits of numismatic cinematic memorabilia provenanced today? On display somewhere? Do one of you own one?? Tough question to ask as I remember a short lived pawn shop trying to sell a cheap one armed bandit shot machine with a sign taped to it reading "belonged to Elvis!" but nonetheless, if anyone has any provenanced cinematic numismatics, I'd like to see if you'll share.
I prefer fact over fiction! http://www.amazon.com/Treasure-Cellar-Tale-Depression-Era-Baltimore/dp/0938420976 Chris
I seem to recall that Mr. Wilson of Dennis the Menace TV fame lost a valuable coin to one of the neighborhood kids who stuck it in a candy machine.
In the movie Sleepers with Brad Pitt and Kevin Bacon the ref at the Guards-Inmates football game at the reform school used a Peace Dollar for the coin toss. At least it looked like one.
Walter Breen (in his Encyclopedia) said that the coin in the 1947 film "The Brasher Doubloon" was a fake. The Brasher Doubloon (1947) coin I was so disappointed.
I suppose my favorite film dealing with money was Dollars (promoted as $$$) with Warren Beatty, Goldie Hawn and Gert Frobe (who portrayed James Bond's Goldfinger). I think it is a quiet classic. And a helluva Quincy Jones soundtrack that is almost impossible to find these days.
Just watched Rifftrax Live - "Time Chasers" last night. When the main character comes back from the future, one of his pieces of proof is this lovely 2041 Kennedy Half Dollar:
Not a movie, but in Elementary, a tv series featuring the latest incarnation of Sherlock Holmes, the main character frequently wears an 1887 gold 2 pound coin as a lapel pin.
