The 1967 film "Winchester 73" shows some US coins used as shooting targets and an Indian wearing an President Jefferson Indian Peace Medal. The film is set in the period around 1876 in a small western town. Three sons of two brothers compete in a shooting contest for a prize Winchester rifle and later become in various adventures with outlaws, Indians, Mexicans, and each other as the rifle is passed around among them. The "Winchester 73" or Winchester Model 1873 was a rifle manufactured by the Winchester Repeating Arms Company and was known as "The Gun that Won the West." This film is a newer version of the 1950 James Stewart film of the same title. At the beginning of the film a Morgan silver dollar and a Barber quarter are shown as shooting targets. Later an Indian chief wears a President Buchanan Indian Peace Medal.

A prologue describes the prize rifle and the period of the film. It is noted later that President Grant owns one, setting the film in the period around 1876. The town of Onyx is having a celebration.

Many people have arrived for the celebration and the shooting contest. In a saloon Meriden, a professional dealer, is dealing cards.

She has a tray of coins in front of her.

Morgan silver dollars can be seen in the tray. They were minted from 1878 to 1904 and again in 1921.

Some smaller coins appear to the right of the dollars. Ben McAdam and Bart McAdam are middle-aged brothers. Ben has two sons, Lin and Dan and Bart has one son Dakin. Lin McAdam is the sheriff of the town and Dan is his younger brother. Dakin is an outlaw who arrives in town after spending six years in prison.

Dakin pays a boy to sign him up for the contest. The entry fee is stated as five dollars in gold.

The three cousins compete in the shooting contest. Younger brother Dan is eliminated and Lin and Dakin are the finalists. A man throws silver dollars into the air as a target.

The silver dollar is a Morgan type. Lin fires at the flying coin and the contest judge then shows the bent coin.

The contest moves to using smaller coins, this time quarters (twenty-five cent coins).

The quarter is a Barber quarter, named after the designer Charles Barber.

A United States Barber quarter:

The Barber quarter was minted from 1892 to 1916.

Dakin fails to hit a quarter but Lin does hit one, winning the contest for the rifle. Ben McAdam has the rifle, Dakin visits him (his uncle), shoots him and steals the rifle. Dakin then rides out of town to a saloon located in the desert, where he meets Meriden and "High-Spade", who has a bunch of ordinary rifles and pistols which he plans to sell to Indians. High-Spade sees the prize rifle and wants it.

The two men play cards for the rifle with Meriden serving as dealer.

A scene shows the cash and the rifle on the table.

High-Spade wins the rifle and gives Dakin an unloaded pistol as a gift. He leaves to deliver his shipment to the Indian buyers but plans to keep the Winchester.

Two Indians arrive to pick up the rifles.

Wild Bear and the Chief are the buyers and the Chief is wearing a medal.

The medal is a President Buchanan Indian Peace Medal, around three inches in diameter.

The US Mint makes smaller 34 mm (1.5 inch) copies of these medals and sells them to collectors.

A President Buchanan Medal:

Obverse: JAMES BUCHANAN / PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES / 1857
Reverse: Two men with flag / LABOR VIRTUE HONOR

Wild Bear wants the prize rifle, kills High-Spade and, takes it. The chief wants nothing to do with this and rides off. Wild Bear wants to try out his rifle and spots a group of Mexican peasants riding and walking. He begins shooting at them, Lin McAdam rides up, the two men engage in a gunfight with the Indian dying. A Mexican girl finds the prize rifle, the men argue over it, then someone suggests that it is cursed, and the men decide to take it to the Padre (Roman Catholic priest) at the nearby Church of St. Jude to have it blessed. Dakin has recruited two outlaws for a raid to steal gold relics at the St. Jude church. Bart, Lin, and Dan have been pursuing Dakin and encounter him at the church.

Bart tries to persuade his son Dakin to surrender and accept a trial, but Dakin's two partners overpower Bart and Lin and hold them at gunpoint. Dakin begins examining the gold church relics.

The little Mexican girl and her father arrive with the prize rifle.

The girl's father surprises the men and a gunfight ensues between Lin and Dakin.

Lin's brother Dan has gone outside and had his own fight with Dakin's outlaw partners. Dan manages to dispatch both of them. Lin has his rifle back, and he and his brother Dan walk away.

The two men agree to work for the good of the town and each other.

Tom Tryon as Lin McAdam
John Saxon as Dakin McAdam
Barbara Luna as Meriden
Dan Duryea as Bart McAdam
Paul Fix as Ben McAdam
David Pritchard as Dan McAdam
John Dehner as High-Spade Johnny Dean
Joan Blondell as Larouge
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writers: Richard L. Adams, Stephen Kandel, Borden Chase, Robert L. Richards