The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 54, December 21, 2003, Article 12

MORE NUMISMATIC MOVIE BLOOPERS

  Tom DeLorey writes: "In the movie "Run Silent, Run Deep,"
  set in WW2, a submariner pays for a bar bill back in Pearl
  Harbor with a $1 Silver Certificate laid face down on the
  bar so that "IN GOD WE TRUST" plainly shows. Though
  some Series 1935 bills bear this motto, they were not issued
  until the mid-1950s.

  In the George C. Scott version of Dickens' "A Christmas
  Carol" (not sure of the name of the movie), young Ebenezer
  Scrooge's fiancee tosses a King George V gold sovereign
  onto a balance scale, though George III might have been
  more appropriate."

  Philip Mernick writes: "You asked in the latest E-Sylum if
  readers had more examples of wrong coins in movies. There
  was a good (that is bad!) example on BBC TV just a few
  weeks ago. It happened in the final episode of a very detailed
  (and apparently well researched) series on the life and loves
  of King Charles II titled "Charles II The Power and the
  Passion". Some one was handed a tray of coins that were
  clearly 20th century rather than 17th. In just the few seconds
  that the coins were in shot it was possible to distinguish a
  George VI  coin and a French Fifth Republic coin. No
  doubt a frame by frame examination of a videotape would
  have shown more but I watched it "live". The BBC web site
  encourages feedback on their programs and they received
  many comments about this. This quote is part of their reaction
  to these comments:  "Unfortunately that was a production
  error and a few people have commented on it! We will say
  that we are pleased the audience follows the programme s
  closely.....!" They seemed surprised that anyone would have
  spotted something so fleeting.  Little do they know how
  observant we collectors can be! I am sure the series will be
  shown on TV in the USA. Will they change the scene? -
  probably not - so look out for the wrong coins!"

  Joe Boling writes: "The Hindenberg (about the crash of the
  Zeppelin), in which a shot of the pursar going through some
  of the money on board shows modern Japanese Y1000 notes.

  The Time of Your Life, the William Saroyan play on film.
  Set in the 1930s, a 1953 or later $2 bill (small red seal) and
  a 1963 or later $1 FRN are visible taped to the mirror
  behind the bar.

  It should not have been so hard for the props departments
  to get this right."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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