Watching NCIS tonight and they come up with an 1870-S seated liberty dollar. Valued at 1.5 million. Pretty cool.
When I first saw it I thought it was a Trade Dollar. And, several times they made it visible it looked like a trade dollar.
A gumball machine that takes large size silver dollars? The reference was probably made to refer to the old Hawaii 5-0 episode "The $100,000 Nickel". In it to hide the stolen 1913 V Nickel they put it in a gumball machine.
After fifty years of broadcast TV with three networks, try to come up with a truly original idea. Pretty much anything you come up with someone somewhere has already done something similar. As the saying goes, there's nothing new under the sun.
The commonly accepted number of 1870-S dollars produced is 12 with only 9 known and all but 2 show signs of circulation.
The only thing consistent about prime time TV is how many rounds of ammo they spend and then go out and preach gun control.
Digression, hijack.........the only broadcast TV that I watch, is the Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, Sunday Today with Willie Geist, 48 Hours, and Dateline. That's it. 60 Minutes is quality stuff, but I don't do it no more because Morely Safer died.
A bit younger than ya'll, and I haven't given up much on the TV. But I am set in my ways that I don't pay for it! And I would be quite happy living in an area (the woods) so that I have much healthier things to do than be trapped in a house watching the boob tube.
From the television program NCIS "Ephemera" episode shown February 18, 2020: Silver dollar obverse and reverse shown early in the program This is an obvious prop coin Silver dollar obverse shown later This one looks like a real Seated Liberty dollar The program had an interesting story about a rare coin theft, a murder, an exhumation, and finally a happy resolution.
