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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;hontonai, post: 629821, member: 4703&quot;]Has anyone seen the movie &quot;Mongol&quot;, which has a split second closeup of a coin in the opening&nbsp; credits?&nbsp; Set in 11th Century Mongolia, and telling the story of the early life of Ghengis Khan, its an excellent movie with English subtitles and fantastic photography, but my casual knowledge of cash coins was nowhere near sufficient to tell in the brief interval it was shown whether they were using a genuine coin of the era, a later but still genuine coin, or one especially made for the movie.</p><p><br /></p><p>My suspicion is 20th Century, as it gave the impression of being struck, not cast.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>In later scenes &quot;ropes&quot; of coins are shown, but not close enough to see the design, although the size seemed to be at the large end of the range.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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