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The Wicked Lady (1983)
Woman loses gold coins in card game and becomes a highwayman
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The 1983 film "Wicked Lady" is set in late 17th century Britain.
 
Lady Barbara Skelton (Faye Dunaway) loses money and a piece of jewelry to her sister-in-law Lady Kinsclere. Lady Kinsclere is warned about a notorious highwayman (bandit) named Jerry Jackson (Alan Bates) before leaving in a coach.
 
Lady Barbara dresses as a highwayman, holds up Lady Kinsclere's coach, and retrieves her money and jewelry. She decides she likes the excitement and on another raid meets the highwayman Jerry Jackson and they become lovers.
 
The card game where Lady Barbara loses to Lady Kinsclere is shown and there are two scenes where there are coins on the table. These are imitation gold coins.
 
The Wicked Lady
1. Coins on the table
The coins appear to be prop coins and brass spade guinea tokens.
 
The Wicked Lady
2. Coins on the table
The larger coins appear to be prop coins and the smaller coins are brass spade guinea tokens.
 
The prop coins appear to be fairly good imitations or more likely, real British brass gaming tokens manufactured in Victorian times whose designs imitated British spade gold guineas but with alternate inscriptions.
 
A British King George III brass spade guinea token:
 
Britain Token Spade Guinea
3. Britain George III Spade Guinea Token
Brass, 25mm, 3.17gm, Manufactured by Rollason and Wood, Tenby Street, Birmingham
Cast, Directors, Writers:
 
Faye Dunaway as Lady Barbara Skelton
Alan Bates as Jerry Jackson
Prunella Scales as Lady Kinsclere
 
Director: Michael Winner
Writers: Leslie Arliss, Michael Winner
Based on the 1944 novel The Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton by Magdalen King-Hall
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