Here are more reader notes on numismatics in film, television and on the stage. -Editor

"This weekend I was channel surfing and came upon a movie, "12 Mighty Orphans" about a 1930's orphanage football team in Texas. It is based on a true story and has a couple interesting numismatic connections!

"During the movie there are a few scenes featuring Treat Williams playing.....Amon Carter! In one of them he is betting on the football game and a $50 National Currency note is shown trading hands.

"Overall the movie is a little corny with the fake football scenes but it does convey the feelings of the time and, at the end, a review of the characters tells us about their life stories after graduating from the Masonic Orphanage school."

Fort Worth, Texas collector Amon Carter built a legendary collection including coins from the Dexter, Neil, Colonial Green, Atwater, Olson, Roe, Granberg, Newcomer, and Haseltine collections.

Another bigtime collector is in the news and being played on the screen. Yesterday I heard a review on National Public Radio of the new HBO series Winning Time about the Los Angeles Lakers. My ears perked up when I heard the name of the team's owner, Jerry Buss. Numismatists know Buss as a collector and owner of the the Idler specimen 1804 silver dollar and the Olsen specimen of the 1913 Liberty Head Nickel (the one that itself starred in an episode of "Hawaii Five-O"). -Editor

"One of the very best pieces with coins at the center is David Mamet's American Buffalo, perhaps ignored because the film from 1996 is actually BAD, with Dustin Hoffman in a bit of a throwaway performance. The play, however, from 1975, with Al Pacino in the central role is terrific, and the play ranks as an American classic of greed, deceit, and general lowlife with the characters contending over the acquisition of a Buffalo Nickel.

"I imagine there is a video record of the original Chicago production available somewhere: I was fortunate to see Pacino recreate his role in San Francisco--a magnificent evening of theatre!! While nothing can fully recreate the energy of the play on stage, even the book of the script is worth a look for the magnificence of Mamet's language and for the insight into what the dark side of numismatics might look like..."

Thanks, everyone. And here's a PCGS article by Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez on Buffalo nickels on television in the 1980s. -Editor