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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 1183955, member: 4910&quot;]These pictures are from the 1975 film &quot;The Man Who Would Be King&quot; which stared</p><p>Sean Connery and Michael Caine as two former British soldiers who venture</p><p>into 1880&#039;s Afghanistan to find a lost kingdom and appropriate a treasure.</p><p>It is based on the famous story by Rudyard Kipling and was filmed mostly in Morocco.</p><p><br /></p><p>At one point Sean Connery holds a coin with the head of Alexander the Great on it.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_manwhowouldbeking_alextet.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>At the lower right is part of another coin which is upside down, and has the</p><p>legend &quot;COS II S C&quot; and some wavy lines.</p><p><br /></p><p>It looks similar to this fake Roman coin of Lucius Verus:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_movie_manwhowouldbeking_lucius.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin is a 35mm fake coin which is not based on a real Roman coin.</p><p>They are usually sold to tourists at ancient sites in Europe and Asia.</p><p><br /></p><p>A similar coin is featured in the CT post by <b>Eyestrain</b></p><p><i>Tourist Fakes: The Quest - Part IV, Ephesus</i></p><p><a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t174346" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t174346">http://www.cointalk.com/t174346</a></p><p><img src="http://www.cointalk.com/attachments/122963d1305092747t-tf4-6.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>As far as the film is concerned, I would classify these as &quot;props&quot;.</p><p>Real ancient coins would be expensive and could get lost around film sets.</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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