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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 26444455, member: 4910&quot;]The 1954 British film &quot;Fire Over Africa&quot; is about glamorous woman secret agent Joanna Dane (Maureen O&#039;Hara) who is assigned to identify the head of a drug smuggling group in the North African city of Tangier, which was at the time an international zone administered by Great Britain, France, and Spain.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Joanna uses her physical charms and skills to get a job at a smuggler&#039;s hangout where she can coax information out of men who find her attractive.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>At one point she contacts an Arab agent working as a waiter and hands him a coin with a message taped to it. The coin is a Spanish 5 peseta coin dated 1949 and minted under the Franco regime.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_fireoverafrica_01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Joanna gives the agent a coin which has a piece of paper or tape on it.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_fireoverafrica_02.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>The message reads &quot;Farrell Murdered&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is enough of the coin showing to identify it as a Spanish five peseta coin dated 1949.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><img src="https://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_spain_peseta05_1949.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Spain 5 Pesetas 1949</p><p>Nickel, 32.0 mm, 15.0 gm</p><p>The coin has an official date of 1949 but has a smaller actual minting date of 1951 hidden in stars on the reverse.</p><p>&nbsp;</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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