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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 153606, member: 4910&quot;]I recently acquired (on Ebay) a Chihuahua 10 peso &quot;cowboy&quot; note.</p><p>I have had the 10 peso &quot;two heads&quot; note for a long time.</p><p><br /></p><p>These Mexican revolutionary bills have appeared in more films than Humphrey Bogart and Joan Crawford.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both of these notes were reprinted extensively by American film prop companies</p><p>and film studios to use in films before 1960.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/posts/pm_chihuahua_10p_cowboy.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Chihuahua 10 Pesos &quot;Cowboy&quot; note</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/posts/pm_chihuahua_10p_heads2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Chihuahua 10 Pesos &quot;Two Heads&quot; note</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://home.earthlink.net/~brianrxm/posts/pm_night_hunter.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>A scene from the 1955 film &quot;Night of the Hunter&quot; shows both types of bill.</p><p>This film starred Robert Mitchum as a preacher.</p><p>Note that the &quot;Cowboy&quot; note reprint has an extra zero added to make the note &quot;100&quot;</p><p>and that the extra zero is offset slightly.</p><p><br /></p><p>Until 1960, it was against US counterfeiting laws to show real money in films, so studios printed up &quot;stage money&quot; bills for motion picture use.</p><p>Also &quot;stage money&quot; was easier to control than real money on sets.</p><p><br /></p><p>A fine book on the subject of film prop money is:</p><p>&quot;Show Me the Money! The Standard Catalog of Motion Picture, Television, Stage and Advertising Prop Money&quot;</p><p>by Fred Reed, published in 2005.</p><p><br /></p><p>:loud:[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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