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Message:: [QUOTE="willieboyd2, post: 2231948, member: 4910"]Coins in Movies: "The Luck of the Irish" (1948) with Tyrone Power. I watched the film "The Luck of the Irish" on television several times when I was a kid, sometimes with my father who was into Irish-related films. The film is on DVD now and I watched it recently, and found that there was a coin involved in the story. While visiting Ireland, American newspaper reporter Tyrone Power meets a Leprechaun who gives him a gold coin as a "lucky coin". <img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_luckoftheirish_lepre.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Later local girl Anne Baxter identifies the coin as a Spanish Doubloon, sixteenth century, from the (1588) Armada wreckage. The coin is shown, it is, of course, an imitation prop coin. <img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_luckoftheirish_coin.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />The coin is apparently based on an old Spanish coin of King Ferdinand. The legend reads "NAVARRE" and "FERNANDVS". After Tyrone returns to New York, he makes a couple of bad decisions, and the coin turns into a pebble. There is more on my website under "Coins in Movies". <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]