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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hrhomer, post: 675564, member: 18530&quot;]I just watched <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0711495/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0711495/" rel="nofollow">this episode of the old TV show, &quot;The Streets of San Francisco.&quot;</a>&nbsp; This particular episode was great - about a plot to counterfeit St. Gaudens Double Eagles, and switch them with an old collector&#039;s genuine ones.&nbsp; The scenes of the actual counterfeiting were outrageous - the bad guy (<a href="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k64/AprilFox58/JohnSaxonFantasyIsland.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k64/AprilFox58/JohnSaxonFantasyIsland.jpg" rel="nofollow">John Saxon</a>) had a dinky-looking hand-crank coin press that looked like it couldn&#039;t punch a hole in a piece of construction paper.&nbsp; The collection (owned by <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Joseph_Cotten_in_Shadow_of_a_Doubt_trailer.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Joseph_Cotten_in_Shadow_of_a_Doubt_trailer.jpg" rel="nofollow">Joseph Cotten</a>) was worth &quot;around a half-million dollars,&quot; and consisted of 40 Double Eagles.&nbsp; The show is set in 1972, and the value of his prize piece, a 1907, was given as &quot;$21,500, eleven years ago,&quot; which implies that it was worh that in 1961.&nbsp; No idea if that&#039;s true, but my Red Book gives it a value of $25,000 in MS-63 today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, the coins in the show are usually handled poorly.&nbsp; At the end, as a gift, the collector sends the detectives two uncirculated 1882 Morgan dollars (&quot;About 4 bucks apiece!&quot;), and they might as well smear chicken grease all over them the way they fondle them.</p><p><br /></p><p>All in all, an entertaining show, with a bonus <a href="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i194/sevenweblog5/Jamie_Farr.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i194/sevenweblog5/Jamie_Farr.jpg" rel="nofollow">Jamie Farr</a> sighting, and I always get a kick out of seeing numismatics where I don&#039;t expect to.</p><p><br /></p><p>Joe[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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