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<p>[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 24643829, member: 101855"]James Bond - a strip of British gold sovereigns mounted in a plastic strip that was part of his "briefcase of tricks" which included a dagger and an exploding lock unless you turned the handles correctly. That was in <i>From Russia with Love.</i> He grabbed the attench of bad boy, Robert Shaw, with the gold coins. </p><p><br /></p><p>They had a famous fight in a small railroad train compartment. According the special features, that scene was very hard to stage in the confined area. I sometimes think of collecting a strip of sovereigns like that. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>On Saturday, I was watching an old Sherlock Holmes movie, <i>The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. </i>In one brief scene, Sherlock tipped a young boy who was cleaning his house a sixpence. The piece was set in 1894, and I happened to have an 1894 sixpence in front of me. The coin Sherlock gave him was way too big. A sixpence from then is a little bigger than a dime.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="johnmilton, post: 24643829, member: 101855"]James Bond - a strip of British gold sovereigns mounted in a plastic strip that was part of his "briefcase of tricks" which included a dagger and an exploding lock unless you turned the handles correctly. That was in [I]From Russia with Love.[/I] He grabbed the attench of bad boy, Robert Shaw, with the gold coins. They had a famous fight in a small railroad train compartment. According the special features, that scene was very hard to stage in the confined area. I sometimes think of collecting a strip of sovereigns like that. :happy: On Saturday, I was watching an old Sherlock Holmes movie, [I]The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. [/I]In one brief scene, Sherlock tipped a young boy who was cleaning his house a sixpence. The piece was set in 1894, and I happened to have an 1894 sixpence in front of me. The coin Sherlock gave him was way too big. A sixpence from then is a little bigger than a dime.[/QUOTE]
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