The 1962 film "Tales of Terror" is based on stories written by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe. All of the stories are set in the mid 1800's. The original Poe stories are horror stories but the film has added comedy elements to the stories. The film has three episodes all of which star Vincent Price. Only the second episode, "The Black Cat", features coins. This episode is based on the Poe stories "The Black Cat" and "The Cask of Amontillado".
An elderly man and his pretty young wife Annabel live together with her large black cat. The man has become an alcoholic and frequently needs money for visits to the local pub. One time while searching for money he finds a jar with some coins in it. The coins appear to be film prop coins with possibly some American coins.

Montresor Herringbone, an elderly man, lives with his wife Annabel. Annabel has a large black cat who likes to be with Montresor but the feeling is not mutual.

Montresor asks his wife for some money and after an argument she gives him a little. He heads for the local pub and when he runs out of money is ordered to leave. He walks down the street and sees a sign for a wine merchants meeting. Montresor enters the room where a professional wine taster, Fortunato Luchresi, is sampling some wines. Montresor claims to also be a wine expert and challenges Fortunato to a wine identification contest.

Fortunato takes a small amount of wine and moves it around his mouth. He then identifies the wine variety.

Montresor impolitely drinks down a full glass and then identifies it. The "contest" ends when he falls down drunk and Fortunato takes him home. Fortunato meets Annabel and there is an immediate attraction.

Sometime later Montresor is at the pub and the bartender asks him why he now has money. He thinks a little and realizes why his wife now is supporting his drinking. He leaves the bar and arrives home where he sees Annabel kissing Fortunato. Another day Montresor invites Fortunato over and serves him some Amontillado, a Spanish sherry wine.

The wine is drugged and Fortunato passes out.

Fortunato is chained to a wall and Annabel is tied to the wall.
Montresor places a final brick into the wall and then goes looking for money.

He tips over a large jar which falls onto the floor revealing some coins. He exclaims "Eureka!".

The coins only appear for a few seconds.

The coins appear to be film prop coins with possibly some American coins. The coin at the bottom has has a facing figure on it.
Two policemen arrive, they have seen an open door and are investigating.

By now Montresor is having hallucinations, seeing snakes and iguanas in the room, and talking to them. When he claims to hear a cat the policemen also hear the cat meowing from the wall.

They find Annabel and the cat.

A quote from the original Edgar Allan Poe story follows.

I had walled the black monster up within the tomb!
Edgar Allan Poe

Vincent Price as Fortunato Luchresi
Peter Lorre as Montresor Herringbone
Joyce Jameson as Annabel Herringbone
Director: Roger Corman
Writers: Richard Matheson, Edgar Allan Poe