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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 2616956, member: 4910&quot;]While waiting to see the Netflix film &quot;Coin Heist&quot; that everyone is raving about and watching the rain fall, and it being Elvis&#039; birthday, I had to watch one of his films.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1967 Paramount Pictures film &quot;Easy Come, Easy Go&quot; features Elvis Presley as a former US Navy diver who discovers a sunken ship and attempts to retrieve the contents.</p><p><br /></p><p>Along the way he meets a pretty go-go dancer and yoga student and a pair of rival treasure hunters. The film story location is not made specific but is most likely Southern California.</p><p><br /></p><p>The treasure consists of a traditional treasure chest supposedly filled with Argentine silver &quot;pieces of eight&quot; or eight reales coins which are dollar-sized silver coins made by the Spanish colonies and their independent successors.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some large prop coins are used for the coins in the film.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_easycomeeasygo_01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Closeups of the underwater prop coin</p><p><br /></p><p>The prop coin appears to be a large size imitation of an ancient Greek silver tetradrachm with the profile of the nymph Arethusa.</p><p><br /></p><p>A final scene is set in a 1960&#039;s coin store where Elvis and his companions try to sell the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_easycomeeasygo_02.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Coin dealer&#039;s store</p><p><br /></p><p>The dealer&#039;s store is filled with coin collecting supplies of the 1960&#039;s including blue Whitman albums.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dealer tells Elvis and his friends that the coins are copper not silver.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_easycomeeasygo_03.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Elvis and Jo the go-go dancer are unhappy or &quot;all shook up&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Elvis&#039; group does get some cash and they give it to a hippie commune.</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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