The Streets of San Francisco - A Collection of Eagles (1973)
Double Eagle $20 gold coins and a Good Luck coin
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This episode of the television program "The Streets of San Francisco" shows United States St. Gaudens
$20 gold coins which were made from 1907 to 1933.
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1. Program title
"The Streets of San Francisco" was an television show which ran from 1972 to 1977.
2. San Francisco lights
San Francisco is "sin city"
The episode starts with Vincent, the coin dealer, in the back of his coin shop
where he is making fake coins.
3. Ernie arrives from Mexico
Ernie has arrived in San Francisco with the goods and is staying in a low-rent hotel.
4. The police arrive
The detectives Stone and Keller arrive at Ernie's hotel room.
The diameter of the $20 gold coin is 34 mm, which might be "close." 5. Good Luck Coin with Swami and All-Seeing Eye
Bronze, 32 mm, 11.97 gm
"Swami" or Fortune Teller wearing turban gazing into crystal ball. Swastika appears on crystal ball. GOOD LUCK WILL ACCOMPANY THE BEARER Good luck symbols Swastika, Key-lock, Four-Leaf Clover, Elephant, Horseshoe, Rabbit's Foot, Wishbone All-Seeing Eye below THE ALL SEEING EYE / GUARDS YOU FROM EVIL Back to the program:
The round item:
6. The round item found in the hotel room
The police find something unusual in the room
7. John James' apartment with coin display case
The nice furnishings here indicate man of wealth and taste.
8. The coin display case
9. United States $20 gold St. Gaudens variety 1927
10. John James
Mr. James, the wealthy retired businessman.
11. Karen, the personal assistant
He plans to donate the collection to a university, and explains to Karen that
when he first moved to San Francisco to start his business, he had a double eagle
which he had to spend, and he has always wanted to "have it back."
12. Johnson explains to Stone and Keller
Keller knows what a planchet is, a metal disk that is made to be stamped into a coin.
Keller explains that he works crossword puzzles.
13. Stone and Keller with a "Red Book"
They wonder what was somebody living in a run-down hotel was doing with gold planchets.
Keller states that an ounce of gold is worth 65 or 70 on international market.
14. Vincent and Tommy working back of shop
Karen visits Vincent at his shop.
15. Karen arrives at the shop
She is uncomfortable with the scheme and wants to back out,
but Vincent talks her into continuing.
16. Vincent Karen walk down the street
The street is Maiden Lane.
17. Vincent and Karen
Ransohoff's women's fashion store was still in business then.
18. The St. Francis Hotel in the background
The St. Francis Hotel is located in the downtown area of Union Square.
19. Vincent and Karen at Union Square
Macy's Department Store is in the background.
20. They hop on a Powell Street Cable Car
One of San Francisco's famous cable cars.
21. Vincent's coin stamping die
Tommy does not like Vincent calling Karen, he is almost jealous of her.
Vince says that the call "is just business."
22. Stone and Keller at the police laboratory
The victim's clothing had salt water and ship paint, which identifies him
as having been on a boat near the ocean.
23. The fakes all ready to go
He decides that Tommy is no longer of use and gives him an extra strong shot of dope.
24. James with his roses
Stone and Keller head out to lunch.
25. Mama's Washington Square restaurant
The restaurant is still in business on Stockton Street
26. Stone and Keller walking
Keller comes up with the idea that the planchets are going to be used for
making counterfeit gold coins.
They would be hard to sell, because "those guys can tell a phony."
Keller plans to call the "numismatic society."
Stone tells Keller that he knows what numismatic means, he has a worked a
few crossword puzzles himself.
27. Stone and Keller church
The church in the background is the Saint Peter And Paul Catholic Church, located at 666 Filbert Street.
28. Karen calls Vincent
Vincent then gets a call from the detectives who ask him to come in.
He is worried but not too much.
29. Coin expert comes in
Yes, it is him.
30. Stone and Keller
Lots of numismatic research material on the desk
31. James and Karen
James shows Karen one of his coins, soon they will be gone.
32. Karen locks the display case
But leaves the lock unclosed.
33. Vincent looking at the display case
While Karen and James are talking in another room, Vincent arrives.
34. James tells Karen some more about his life
"Then I met this guy named Harry Lime"
(No, that is not in the episode).
35. Karen unhappy
James tells her that the coins are going to the English department,
and mentions that he got her name from dean at the university.
He also tells her that he wants to name a beautiful rose after her.
She is becoming more distraught at the choice that she has made.
36. Stone and Keller arrive at apartment
Karen was still in the apartment and heard the police coming.
Stone and Keller look at the display case.
37. Stone and Keller look at the display case
The detectives explain to James that he might have some counterfeit coins,
and that they are investigating two murders possibly connected to the scheme.
38. White gloves
He tells James that they have two murders tied to this case.
39. Stone and Keller with James
Keller is wearing white gloves.
40. Karen arrives at the shop
Vincent is ready to leave and he tells her:
"I don't need you, your whining mouth or you pawing me."
He slugs her and knocks her down, then gets ready to inject her with something.
41. Stone arrives at Vincent's shop
Vincent pulls a gun and Keller is forced to shoot him.
42. Stone hides behind a store coin display case
43. Karen and Keller
Vincent pulls a gun and tries to shoot it out with the cops.
44. The bad guy gets his
Another case closed by Stone and Keller.
Back at the police office, they do the necessary paperwork.
45. Stone and Keller at the office
Stone is holding a coin magazine.
46. Stone looks at gift silver dollar
The silver dollars are dated 1882, and look uncirculated.
They appear to be in some kind of plastic holders.
Stone and Keller look at their "Red Book" to find out how much they are worth.
47. Looking at the "Red Book"
"We're rich, four dollars apiece!"
48. Desk with "Red Book", silver dollars, and note
49. The silver dollars
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Cast, Directors, Writers:
This episode was set and filmed in San Francisco, California, but it could have been set
in any large American city. 1907 extremely high relief $20 gold coins have sold for several hundred thousand dollars. |
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Cast, Directors, Writers:
Karl Malden as Detective Lt. Mike Stone
Michael Douglas as Inspector Steve Keller John Saxon as Vincent 'Vince' Hagopian Jr. Belinda Montgomery as Karen Pearson Joseph Cotten as John R. James Hari Rhodes as Charlie Johnson, Lab Technician Writers: Robert I. Holt, Edward Hume |
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