This episode of the television program "Gunsmoke" shows United States silver dollars and $20 gold coins on a gambling table. "Gunsmoke" was a one-hour television program which ran on the CBS television network from 1955 to 1975. The regular characters are Matt Dillon, the Marshall or Sheriff of the town of Dodge City, Kansas. Miss Kitty runs a saloon, Festus is Matt's deputy, and Doc Adams is the town doctor. The show was set in the 1870's to 1880's. The episode is titled "Trail of Bloodshed" and was first broadcast on March 4, 1974. This episode is a story of revenge with Kurt Russell as Buck Henry, a young man hunting his outlaw uncle Rance Woolfe who has murdered his father for a cache of gold and silver coins.

Buck has discovered his father's body and his uncle Ranch searching the place.

Rance sees Buck and shoots him too. Rance then finds the cache and pours it onto a table.

Several Morgan-type silver dollars and St. Gaudens type $20 gold coins. Although "Gunsmoke" was set in the 1870's, the gold coins of this type were made from 1907 to 1933. The coins probably came from somebody's collection, and the ones on the table together would have been worth a few thousand dollars in 1974 when the price of gold was $150 to $200 an ounce. Festus is hunting Rance for another robbery, find's Buck's girlfriend, the two follow Buck. Rance stops in a small town (not Dodge City) saloon, and loses the money to a professional gambler.

Before sitting down at the table, Rance spent some time upstairs with one of the girls and has been drinking heavily.

Mark Stevens was television's "Peter Gunn" in the late 1950's.

Several Morgan-type silver dollars and St. Gaudens type $20 gold coins. One of the silver dollars is dated 1896.

This shot shows the almost uncirculated $20 reverses. Buck catches up with Rance, they shoot each other, Rance flees, the Gambler treats Buck's leg injury from the shooting, Buck then follows Rance, another shooting, Rance dies, Festus takes Buck back to the saloon to be reunited with his girl friend. A United States St. Gaudens $20:

James Arness as Matt Dillon
Amanda Blake as Kitty
Kurt Russell as Buck Henry
Tom Simcox as Rance Woolfe
Craig Stevens as The Gambler
Director: Bernard McEveety
Writers: Paul Savage, Earl W. Wallace