Woman inherits ranch and apple orchard and finds three rare silver bust dollars
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The 2022 film "The Secrets of Bella Vista" was based on Susan Wiggs's 2015 novel The Apple Orchard.
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1. Title
Tess Delaney is shown working at her desk.
2. Tess at her desk
Tess works at an antiques store in San Francisco which is part of a larger antiques business.
She hopes to be promoted by the company to an executive position at the company headquarters
in New York. Kiley is her assistant and hopes to follow her to New york.
3. Tess and Kiley meet Damhnaic
Damhnaic McAuley visits the store and asks to talk to Tess. He informs her that he is a banker and that
her grandfather Magnus has died and left her half of a ranch located in the fictional town of Arcangel
in the Napa Valley.
4. Family heirlooms
Isabel tells Tess about her grandparents Magnus and Eva who were from Denmark and Germany
and immigrated to the US bring a few items. Eva's father was a coin collector and Eva brought some
rare coins with her.
5. Tess studying photographs
Tess looks at a photograph of Eva wearing jewelry.
6. Eva wearing jewelry
Tess spots some coin jewelry and remembers the "rare coins" which are described as
"1804 silver bust collars of class one." The word "collars" is used several times and, from the
description of the coins, these are the famous 1804 dollars of which there were eight originals minted.
They are known as "bust" dollars due to the woman facing right on the coins.
Tess learns that one was sold in 2017 for $4,000,000.
7. Isabel, Eva, and Shannon
If the women can locate the three coins they can pay off the mortgage and start a business.
Tess finds a German real estate document which mentions the three coins as collateral for a loan.
8. Tess talks to coin dealer
The dealer tells her that a man did try to sell the coins but did not have authentication papers.
9. The coins
The coins were kept loose in an envelope.
10. The coins in the hand
The coins are smaller than real US silver dollars and appear to be prop coins or smaller imitations of
early United States silver dollars of the variety known as Draped Bust Type Heraldic Eagle Reverse, minted
from 1798 to 1804.
11. Damhnaic and Tess
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Cast, Directors, Writers:
Rachelle Lefevre as Tess Delaney
Niall Matter as Damhnaic McAuley Helena Marie as Isabel Nathalie Boltt as Shannon (Tess's mother) Phoebe Miu as Kiley Writers: Jamie Pachino, Susan Wiggs (novel The Apple Orchard) |
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