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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;phankins11, post: 2201158, member: 70703&quot;]Recently i&#039;ve been watching AMC&#039;s &quot;Hell On Wheels&quot; on Netflix. Here&#039;s the blurb...</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The Civil War is in the past, but former Confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon can&#039;t put it behind him. Fresh are the horrific memories of the death of his wife, killed at the hands of the Union soldiers, an act that sets Bohannon on a course of revenge. This contemporary Western tells the story of his journey, a story that rides on Union Pacific&#039;s construction of the first transcontinental railroad. Bohannon&#039;s westward travels take him to a lawless melting pot of a town called &quot;Hell on Wheels,&quot; which moves with the construction of the railroad.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So far in the first 15 episode there&#039;ve been a few references to coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>In one particular scene, Elam, a freed slave, is collecting $20 per for some Indian scalps he had collected. As Mr. Durant, the man who was building the rail road, digs into his money box to pay, Elam says, &quot;...pay me with them 20 dollar gold eagles now, not that paper money&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>In, the second reference, some Irish workers are holding a wake for one of their fallen comrades. In the scene the coffin with the deceased is propped up as if to have the man standing, a shot glass full of liquor in his right hand. As the scene opens they are singing a song and laying braided hair (I&#039;m guessing at the denomination) large cents over his eyes.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s an interesting show, a bit violent, but again those were violent times. I just thought the references to coins were cool.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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