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Message:: [QUOTE="Hobo, post: 354787, member: 11521"]Some people don't like watching a movie with me. I LOVE finding discontinuities, inconsistencies and mistakes in movies and TV shows. You know, "Those kind of trees don't grow in Georgia!" "Wasn't the cast on his LEFT leg earlier?" "She was wearing a RED dress when she walked in and now it's BLUE."  The other night I was watching Steve McQueen's old TV show Wanted: Dead Or Alive. (I bought it on DVD. Not a bad show.) This episode was set in the 1870s. In a bar scene the camera panned across the bar. There were two silver dollars on the bar. I paused the action and zoomed in. The image was grainy but I distinctly saw the reverse of two Peace Dollars (first minted in 1921).  A while back I was watching an old Western movie with my father. The movie was set in the 1870s or '80s. Someone had robbed the stage. It was reported that $20,000 in gold (could have been more - doesn't matter) was stolen - much of it in $50 gold pieces. I stopped the movie and told my father that there were no $50 gold pieces ever minted for circulation and the only $50 gold pieces ever minted were made in 1915 (Panama-Pacific Commemorative). He was not impressed with my vast numismatic knowledge and said, "It doesn't matter. Let's just watch the movie." Sigh![/QUOTE]