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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 2807073, member: 4910&quot;]The 1935 film &quot;Frisco Kid&quot; is a period film set in San Francisco in 1854 during the California gold rush.</p><p><br /></p><p>James Cagney arrives in the city and becomes an entrepreneur in the city&#039;s infamous Barbary Coast vice district.</p><p><br /></p><p>The film is pretty ordinary until James is shown a tray of coins, then appears one of the finest scenes of coins in a film.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_friscokid_coins_01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>These are examples of film studio prop coins, including ones copied from the &quot;Barber&quot; design and ones copied from the old Spanish eight reales.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_friscokid_coins_02.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>More money, and a man weighing gold dust.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coincidentally, the first San Francisco Mint opened in 1854, conveniently located in the Barbary Coast.</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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