Found my first ever English Pound and inadvertently starred briefly in a movie..

[Uncle Willy]

Went to one of my regular parks that usually coughs up two to four bucks but was strangely devoid of coins today and I wound up with a lousy 88 cents plus the pound. I was on my way back to my van when I got one of those squirrely signals that told me the YF had found something unusual that wasn't in its programming - so I popped up this 1981 English pound coin. It's a heavy coin and an eighth inch thick.

Earlier I had wandered over towards the playground where I saw a group of people gathered at one end of it. As I started towards it this guy came over all excited and told me they were filming a movie and I had just walked into it. Actually he said, " S&%* you're already in it." I told him I was sorry and he asked if I would do him a favor and just walk the other direction. I told him I'd go him one better as I was heading for the playground and I would just quietly exit his movie. He said, " Oh thank you." After I got in the playground I saw all the cameras, lights, reflectors, etc. So this was my uneventful day.

Bill

 

[awhitster]

Nice find on the pound coin. You are a star.

 

[Graw]

n/t

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

From the land of the Bluenose.....those are thick coins for sure eh! I'll be the first in line for your autography providing the cost is not to steep. Way to go me bouy!

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

You would think they would be watching things a little better. That happened to me in Hawaii. My wife and I walked into a movie shoot in the Honolulu botanical gardens.

 

[MikeDahms]

Hey don't they owe you "extra" pay for being in the movie????? It would be worth more than a pound. HH Mike

 

[cwilk]

Another first for the guru. Those 1 pound coins feel like real money don't they?

CHris

Now that you're in the movies don't get all Hollywood on us.

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah nice and heavy and thick.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

I was going to ask if I would be edited out or left in for local color.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Did they leave you in or edit you out?

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Thanks bud. They feel like real money. What's the pound worth now against our dollar?

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I've got a jar full of foreign coins but tis is a first for this one. I just noticed it has writing on the rim like our new dollar coin except this is in what appears to be Latin.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Do you know what metal these pound coins are made of? When I dug it up it was bronze colored but when I cleaned it a bit silver showed through.and there are words printed on the rim - apparently in Latin.

Bill

 

[Mick in Dubbo]

That's the heaviest coin that I've ever heard of Bill. Are you sure this isn't a fishing yarn?
Mick Evans.

 

[Leslie(nova scotia)]

n/t

 

[awhitster]

You would think they would be watching things a little better. That happened to me in Hawaii. My wife and I walked into a movie shoot in the Honolulu botanical gardens.

And that is how Big John ALMOST got the Magnum PI job

 

[Uncle Willy]

Could be Mick.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Yeah I think I saw him in an episode.

Bill

 

[Uncle Willy]

Hey thanks bud. I knew they were worth more but didn't know how much.

Bill

 

[John 'n' W.Va]

Yeah I think I saw him in an episode.

Bill

(In Hawaiian) Make bra'lah plenty hu hu. I kick your oko'lay! It's not spelled right, but you get the point.