The 1939 film "Only Angels Have Wings" is about an air mail and freight company in South America whose flights are over the dangerous Andes Mountains. Geoff Carter (Cary Grant) manages the post and flies for the company. Bonnie Lee (Jean Arthur) arrives in town and begins a romance with Geoff, interrupted by dangerous flights. "Kid" Dabb (Thomas Mitchell) is a pilot and mechanic for the company. Kid Dabb always carries a "lucky coin."

Kid Dabb carries a dollar-size coin which he always wins when he flips it and calls "heads." Geoff discovers that it is a two-headed coin. Kid is killed during a flight and Geoff receives his personal goods.

Geoff picks up the two-headed coin. Geoff and Bonnie argue about marriage and finally Bonnie asks Geoff "Do you want me to stay or not?." Geoff takes the coin out and replies "Tails you go, heads you stay." He flips it and hands it to her.

Bonnie is angry at first and then examines the coin.

She turns it over several times.

The coin is a Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Company President Monroe Motion Picture prop coin. Of course, only the obverse is shown in the film.

White metal, 38 mm, 20.68 gm
Obverse: President James Monroe facing half left, no text
Reverse: Bird of Paradise and man kneeling in temple surrounded by eight-pointed star, no text

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Cary Grant as Geoff Carter
Jean Arthur as Bonnie Lee
Thomas Mitchell as "Kid" Dabb
Director: Howard Hawks
Writers: Jules Furthman, Howard Hawks