This episode of the television program "Murder She Wrote" features a very rare United States coin, an 1804 silver dollar. "Murder She Wrote" was a one-hour television program which ran on the CBS television network from 1984 to 1996. The program starred Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher, a retired teacher living in a Maine coastal town. She writes mystery novels and solves crimes. The episode is titled "Nailed" and was first broadcast on September 21, 1995. It is set in New York City. The same silver dollar appeared in a previous episode, "Always a Thief."

Jessica is in New York City and is getting her hair done at the "Antoinette on Fifth" salon.

Ralph is a sleazy financier who is married to Kathy, an heiress. He has been supplying Billy, a burglar, with information from the salon on when customers will be attending events and thus will be out of their apartments. Ralph wants to open a salon with Jimmy, Antoinette's celebrity hair stylist, and he needs money. He asks his wife to loan him an 1804 silver dollar, worth $400,000, which has been in her family since her great-great-grandfather received it and founded the company which has made her wealthy.

Ralph takes the coin to Allie who makes him a copy of it. Allie then gives Ralph both dollars, the real and the fake.

Both dollars are then shown.

The red holder has the fake dollar and the black holder has the real dollar. They are obviously prop coins, not real 1804 dollars, which are not only rare but famous. Max Mehl, a Texas coin dealer, ran advertisements for many years mentioning the coin. Allie warns Ralph that the fake is not very good and that a collector could spot it. Ralph hands the fake to his girlfriend Nancy, a television show hostess, as collateral for a loan that she is giving him to open his salon. The burglar Billy breaks into Nancy's place and steals the dollar. Later he finds that it is a fake.

Kathy has found out about her husband's affair with Nancy. Kathy and Nancy have known each other for a long time, since they were high-school cheerleaders. Ralph is found murdered, stabbed by a pair of scissors, police detective Sam Kriley and Jessica get to investigate. Jessica, who now has years of experience and a reputation in these matters, figures out who did it. She asks her friend, a salon employee and writer, to tell people that the murderer left something at the scene. Jessica finds Kathy and Nancy searching the scene and gets her girls.

It seems that while the ladies were rivals for Ralph, neither liked him, and when Kathy confronted Ralph with his latest affair and Nancy about the fake dollar, he became violent and attacked them and one of them picked up a pair of scissors.

Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher
John O'Hurley as Ralph Stafford
Vic Polizos as Lt. Sam Kriley (police detective)
Daphne Ashbrook as Kathy Stafford
Denise Gentile as Nancy Rayburn
Director: Anthony Pullen Shaw
Writers: Donald Ross