Twilight Zone Episode "Penny for Your Thoughts", US coins from 1961

The episode of the long-running American CBS television show "Twilight Zone", "A Penny for Your Thoughts", first broadcast on February 3, 1961, shows what American coins were in circulation then.

The episode is a comical one about a man named Hector who finds that he can read minds after he buys a newspaper from a street vendor and a quarter lands on it's edge.


The news vendor's coin box before Hector throws in a quarter.
The tray holds various United States coins, mostly silver.
A "walking liberty" half dollar appears.


Hector's quarter lands on its edge
A "buffalo" nickel appears, they were still in circulation in 1961.


"Twilight Zone" end credits showing coin box again.
A "standing liberty" quarter appears, at least 30 years old at the time.