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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;willieboyd2, post: 2853610, member: 4910&quot;]In 2015 and 2016 I received emails from Community Films, a Minnesota-base television program producer. They stated that they had seen and liked my &quot;The Mysterious Egyptian Magic Coin&quot; website and requested permission to use an image for a television program entitled &quot;Found&quot; which they were producing for The History Channel. The program was to be about a panel of experts who identify objects which people have found.</p><p><br /></p><p>Egyptian Magic Coins are exonumia tokens with Egyptian symbols on them. They were manufactured as watch fobs and good luck coins starting around 1900.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_egyptmagiccoin_generic.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Egyptian Magic Coin</p><p>Bronze, 32mm, 8.35gm</p><p>Obverse: Pharaoh seated on throne surrounded by hieroglyphs</p><p>Reverse: Sphinx with pyramids and sunburst behind</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the image that they wished to use, a variety of the Egyptian Magic Coin with an image of Cleopatra with a bird:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_egyptmagiccoin_cleobird_first.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Egyptian Magic Coin - Cleopatra-Bird variety</p><p>White metal, 32mm, 10.32gm</p><p>Obverse: Cleopatra facing right wearing bird headdress, small bird facing right.</p><p>Reverse: Standard Egyptian Magic Coin sphinx, pyramids, and sunburst design.</p><p><br /></p><p>I gave Community Films permission to use the image by email.</p><p><br /></p><p>I heard nothing more from Community Films, but on Sunday, September 3, 2017, I was switching channels and saw a coin similar to the one in the illustration.</p><p><br /></p><p>I checked the TV log and found it was the History Channel program &quot;Found&quot;, the episode was number 10 and was entitled &quot;The Importance of Being Urn-est&quot; as another segment was about an urn. The coin was in the first segment.</p><p><br /></p><p>This was the first showing of the episode and it appeared on The History Channel website for viewing on September 5, 2017.</p><p><br /></p><p>The episode was about a one-sided coin which had a similar Cleopatra image but no reverse image.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_television_foundhistory_01.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Program segment description</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;My mother found a strange little thing over a hundred years ago. I don&#039;t think its American, but what is it?&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The program did not mention my website or show the picture from it. They apparently did not need my image.</p><p><br /></p><p>The program did show a watch fob with an Egyptian Magic Coin:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.brianrxm.com/posts/post_television_foundhistory_02.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Watch Fob with Egyptian Magic Coin</p><p><br /></p><p>I did watch all ten episodes of &quot;Found&quot; and found it to be an interesting show.</p><p><br /></p><p>Well, so it goes with my brief adventure in television programming.</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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