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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 954333, member: 4910&quot;]I like to find literary references to coins in novels or non-fiction books.</p><p>Here is one of the more interesting ones.</p><p><br /></p><p>The novel <i>To Kill A Mockingbird</i> by Harper Lee, published in 1960 by</p><p>HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., became a best-seller and won several literary prizes.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book&#039;s 50th anniversary (July 11, 2010) of publication was reported on several news outlets.</p><p><br /></p><p>The book mentions Indian-Head pennies early on.</p><p><br /></p><p>Scout and Jem, two children in Alabama in 1933, find a pair of such pennies and discuss them.</p><p>Scout is narrating.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Inside were two scrubbed and polished pennies, one on top of the other.</i></p><p><i>Jem examined them.</i></p><p><i>&quot;Indian-heads,&quot; he said. &quot;Nineteen-six and Scout, one of &#039;em&#039;s nineteen-hundred.</i></p><p><i>These are real old.&quot;</i></p><p><i>&quot;Nineteen-hundred,&quot; I echoed. &quot;Say---&quot;</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;I don&#039;t know, Scout. But these are important to somebody....&quot;</i></p><p><i>&quot;How&#039;s that, Jem...?&quot;</i></p><p><i>&quot;Well, Indian-heads --- well, they come from the Indians.</i></p><p><i>They&#039;re real strong magic, they make you have good luck.</i></p><p><i>Not like fried chicken when you&#039;re not lookin&#039; for it,</i></p><p><i>but things like long life &#039;n&#039; good health, &#039;n&#039; passin&#039; six-weeks test...</i></p><p><i>these are real valuable to somebody. I&#039;m gonna put &#039;em in my trunk.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_c01_1900_indian.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Indian-Head penny 1900</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_unitedstates_c01_1906_indian.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Indian-Head penny 1906</p><p><br /></p><p>I added the film to the <b>Coins in Movies</b> section of my website.</p><p><br /></p><p>The titles are narrated by an adult woman remembering her childhood in early</p><p>1930&#039;s Alabama.</p><p><br /></p><p>A pair of hands open a cigar box displaying, among other things,</p><p>Indian Head and Lincoln pennies</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_tokillmockingbird_title_7.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>A 1907 Indian Head penny and two 1960 Lincoln pennies.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1960 pennies and the film&#039;s setting in the 1930&#039;s is sometimes considered a &quot;goof&quot;</p><p>but the adult woman narrating the titles makes it clear that the events in the film</p><p>occured a long time ago in her childhood.</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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