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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 166695, member: 4910&quot;]Coins in an old movie - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)</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 two pictures are from the 1948 Warner Brothers film &quot;The Treasure of the Sierra Madre&quot; which is about three Americans who go prospecting for gold in 1925 in Mexico&#039;s Sierra Madre mountains.</p><p><br /></p><p>Early in the film, Fred C. Dobbs (Humphrey Bogart) is panhandling with the line</p><p>&quot;Say, mister. Will you stake a fellow American to a meal?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>An American wearing a white suit gives him a silver peso which is shown below in Bogart&#039;s hand.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/posts/tsm_peso_1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/posts/tsm_peso_2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>It is hard to make out the date of the coin, they were made from 1920 to 1945.</p><p>Since the film is set in early 1925 and the coin looks new, it would probably be dated 1924.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks like a Mexico peso Krause <i>Coins of the World</i> catalog number KM 455, 33mm diameter, 0.720 silver.</p><p>Here is what the coin looks like.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/posts/mexpeso_1924.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;I don&#039;t have to show you any stinking badges!&quot;</p><p><br /></p><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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