The 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days" is about the relationship between England's King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn from 1525 to 1535. Henry VIII divorces his wife Catherine and marries the young pretty Anne. Sir Thomas More, the Lord Chancellor, opposes the king's divorce and remarriage and the king has Sir Thomas executed by beheading in 1535. It was customary for the condemned man to pay the executioner for "good service." Sir Thomas More gives a gold coin to the executioner.

The masked executioner holds out his hand for the expected payment. Sir Thomas hands him a gold coin.

The coin, no doubt an imitation or "prop coin", possibly made to resemble a gold coin of Henry VIII. Henry VIII had the gold Crown and Halfcrown minted from 1526 to 1544.

Richard Burton as King Henry VIII
Genevieve Bujold as Anne Boleyn
Irene Papas as Queen Catherine of Aragon
Anthony Quayle as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
John Colicos as Thomas Cromwell
William Squire as Sir Thomas More
Director: Charles Jarrott
Writers: Bridget Boland, John Hale, Richard Sokolove
Based on the 1948 play Anne of the Thousand Days by Maxwell Anderson