old movies showing coins or bills.

This isn't an old movie, but it takes place during the Cold War.

That silver dollar with a poison injection pin did exist, and the downed U2 pilot actually contemplated using it after imagining what the Soviets would do to him in prison. Nice pun to "spend the dollar" in the script excerpt below.

Also, at the beginning of the movie, you see a Jefferson nickel that gets split in half by the Soviet spy to reveal its secret, hidden message. That was also used in reality.

"Bridge of Spies"

 

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Since you brought up the Titanic movie, there is a scene near the end of the movie where they are throwing paper money around and it's small size bills like we have today and not the large size bills that were used in 1912.

 

There is a 1955 D doubled die cent as well. Not as well known, not as dramatic, but it does exist.

 

Gotta love that movie. Especially as Kate Winslet especially in titanic is a dead ringer for my girlfriend especially when she was younger

 

This quarter has been traveling since 1958

 

Just watched this over the weekend. Did several rewinds but could not figure out the coin with the suicide pin in it.

Did figure out the nickel clearly.

 

Ha! I grew up after the change was made to clad. Although I started collecting at a tender young age, I've never dropped silver coin to hear the sound!

 

I would have thought a Franklin but it really could be any dollar coin since the Peace dollar was in circulation then, too.

And, good movie, right?

 

Good movie? Yes. Accurate depiction and historic accuracy? Uh, Hollywood's loose translation and political message came across loud and clear.

 

An excellent movie as well!

 

1907 Eagle & 1913 Liberty
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The wishing well scene in Goonies -

 

That's not how it went. Reeve goes back in time with just his mind - no coin. He's living in the past but it ends when he finds a modern cent in his pocket. I was on Mackinac Island when they where filming Somewhere In Time at the Grand Hotel there. I went to the theater to see a matinee of Superman. Halfway through the movie, the theater lost its sound. A young man in the audience stood up and recited, in sync, every line of every actor in the movie. He did this for fifteen or twenty minutes until the sound came back on then he sat down and watched the rest of the movie. When the lights came on after, we saw that it was Christopher Reeve!

 

Happy Days - season 8 "Rosa Coletti" episode. Al carries a dime and Fonz asks about the "woman on the dime" which says it must be a Mercury dime.