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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 3147832, member: 4910&quot;]I watched the 1949 crime film &quot;Scene of the Crime&quot; a few days ago and spotted an interesting piece of dialog.</p><p><br /></p><p>An informer tells police detective Van Johnson about two crooks, Turk and Lafe:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_sceneofthecrime_01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Loomis, the shoeshine man to Van Johnson:</i></p><p><i>Turk, he&#039;s the smart one.</i></p><p><i>Lafe, he&#039;s childish-like. A big kid.</i></p><p><i>He saves things.</i></p><p><i>Anything -- stamps, match covers, pennies.</i></p><p><i>He&#039;s looking for the kind of penny that automobile companies are supposed to give a new automobile for.</i></p><p><i>He&#039;s gone. Real gone.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Later the detective searches Lafe&#039;s apartment and finds a box full of pennies (cents).</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_sceneofthecrime_02.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Box with pennies</p><p><br /></p><p>I was curious about the &quot;kind of penny&quot; and found that the closest match would be the rare 1943 copper cent, which got a lot of publicity when one was found in 1944 by a coin collector in Long Beach, California.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 1947 there was a rumor that the Ford Motor Company would give a new car for such a penny.</p><p><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-cented-garden" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-cented-garden" rel="nofollow">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-cented-garden</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Did Texas coin dealer Max Mehl, who offered large amounts for rare coins in the 1930&#039;s and 1940&#039;s, help this story along?</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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