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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 164491, member: 4910&quot;]Coins in an old movie - The Good Earth (1937)</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks to DVD technology, it is now possible to &quot;freeze&quot; frames on an old movie.</p><p><br /></p><p>These three pictures are from the 1937 MGM film &quot;The Good Earth&quot; which is about Chinese peasant farmers in the years around the 1911 revolution.</p><p><br /></p><p>About 35 minutes into the film, the lead character&#039;s hands are shown handling silver dollars.</p><p>The 1911 revolution occurs later on in the film.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/posts/goodearthcn1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Appears to be a China Sun Yat Sen &quot;junk&quot; dollar 1934 (year 23) obverse.</p><p>An obvious anachronism as the film is set before 1911.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/posts/goodearthcn2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Appears to be a China Empire &quot;dragon&quot; dollar 1911 obverse</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/posts/goodearthcn3.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Appears to be a China Chihli Province Pei Yang Arsenal dollar (1899-1908) reverse</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/posts/goodearthcn4.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Appears to be a China Szechuan Province dollar (1901-1909) obverse</p><p><br /></p><p>Willie</p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/about/pm_cowboy_292.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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