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<p>[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 25885001, member: 4626"]A few I distinctly remember:</p><p>2005 King Kong, when the out of work actress got caught stealing an apple, Jack Black's character offered to pay for it with what you could clearly see was a buffalo nickel (movie took place in 1933, the year the original King Kong was released).</p><p><br /></p><p>1997 Titanic when Rose wanted to pay Jack to sketch a portrait of her, she was paying with what you could clearly see as a Barber dime. Also earlier in the movie when Jack was gambling for his ticket you could see several British coins, mostly featuring George V with a few Edward VII mixed in which made sense for 1912. (I think I may have even seen some depicting Queen Victoria.)</p><p><br /></p><p>No Country for Old Men at the end of the movie you could clearly see multiple times he was flipping a coin (to see if he would spare someone or not) that was a 1955 sliver Washington quarter. It's currency, not coins, but in the same movie you could see $100 bills that had Michael Brady's signature on them (I couldn't see the treasurer's signature) which were actually anachronistic for the 1980 setting, since the newest bills available at the time should have had Blumenthal and Morton's signatures.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Troodon, post: 25885001, member: 4626"]A few I distinctly remember: 2005 King Kong, when the out of work actress got caught stealing an apple, Jack Black's character offered to pay for it with what you could clearly see was a buffalo nickel (movie took place in 1933, the year the original King Kong was released). 1997 Titanic when Rose wanted to pay Jack to sketch a portrait of her, she was paying with what you could clearly see as a Barber dime. Also earlier in the movie when Jack was gambling for his ticket you could see several British coins, mostly featuring George V with a few Edward VII mixed in which made sense for 1912. (I think I may have even seen some depicting Queen Victoria.) No Country for Old Men at the end of the movie you could clearly see multiple times he was flipping a coin (to see if he would spare someone or not) that was a 1955 sliver Washington quarter. It's currency, not coins, but in the same movie you could see $100 bills that had Michael Brady's signature on them (I couldn't see the treasurer's signature) which were actually anachronistic for the 1980 setting, since the newest bills available at the time should have had Blumenthal and Morton's signatures.[/QUOTE]
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