Tombstone poker scene with coins on table

[Cu Penny Hoarder]

Please watch this clip from the movie "Tombstone". View it full screen and freeze it at 0:45. That looks like the reverse side of a Washington quarter to me. This movie was based in the late 1800's and Washington quarters were not minted until 1932... Ooooops!

Opinions please.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvcYu7COBi4

Sorry if this is a little off topic, but I always wondered if any other coin aficionados noticed this.

[neilgin1]

Brits, for some reason LOVE to look for production screw-up's, and there are many, in many films. Next time the credits roll, look in the credits and you'll see "script supervisor", this is USUALLY a woman, who sits near the director, and will note EVERY detail in EVERY take, on her copy of the script, and if she catches anything different from take to take, like lets say in take 1 and 2, the actor was holding a cig in his left hand, 3/4rds smoked, she's the one that makes the call to props, who give the actor a new cig....but in this case, that would be a props dept screw up, but i hate to be disagreeable, but those 2 silver pieces by the left revolver, look fat, like a pair of Morgans...but i dont eat right, so it might be my vitamin C defiency kicking in. great movie though, probably the best Val ever did, and imo any thing Billy Paxton is in , is good.

[AGCoinHunter]

Didnt see quarters when I stopped it. Love this movie, one of my top 10.

[cuag]

Ice Man never did know his coinage, thats why he was never the best pilot. OR Doc Brown gave Val the wrong change when he jumped into the Delorean. OR said Delorean went to 1855 instead of 1955.

[Doctor Steuss]

Hard to tell on my itty-bitty-laptop, but it looks like the reverse of a Walking Liberty Half to me (I think it's too big to be a quarter).

[Cu Penny Hoarder]

Brits, for some reason LOVE to look for production screw-up's, and there are many, in many films. Next time the credits roll, look in the credits and you'll see "script supervisor", this is USUALLY a woman, who sits near the director, and will note EVERY detail in EVERY take, on her copy of the script, and if she catches anything different from take to take, like lets say in take 1 and 2, the actor was holding a cig in his left hand, 3/4rds smoked, she's the one that makes the call to props, who give the actor a new cig....but in this case, that would be a props dept screw up, but i hate to be disagreeable, but those 2 silver pieces by the left revolver, look fat, like a pair of Morgans...but i dont eat right, so it might be my vitamin C defiency kicking in. great movie though, probably the best Val ever did, and imo any thing Billy Paxton is in , is good.

I don't pride myself on finding continuity errors in movies, I just thought these coins looked odd or misplaced. Maybe I'm the one who needs the Vit C

[68Camaro]

I can't tell - doesn't jump out at me as being a washington.

[Corsair]

You guys are too drunk, probably just seeing double.

"I have two guns. One for each of you."

[chant1970]

It’s not a walking liberty the eagle is facing the wrong way, also the body of the bird is running from north to south like on a Washington Quarter as opposed to N.W. to S.E. on a walking liberty. It looks to thick to be a quarter and there doesn’t seam to be any words above the eagle. My guess is prop money.

[Robarons]

What I spot more is shows and movies created now that are based in the past use today's new designed currency.

For example That 70's show always used the new large portrait bills rather than the old small styles of the period.

[Rodebaugh]

You guys are too drunk, probably just seeing double.

"I have two guns. One for each of you."

+1 for PC official movie buff

[VWBEAMER]

They look like giant Washington quarters. I agree that looks like the eagle on the Washington quarter, but the coin looks to be the size of a silver dollar.

[VWBEAMER]

Could be a trade dollar maybe......http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tradedollar.jpg

[fasteddy]

they dont look like silver...looks like dull Zinc or oxidized aluminum to me...but they seem to resemble the trade dollar reverse sorta....either way prop money...thanks for the clip.