The 1937 film "Another Dawn" is set at a small outpost in the Middle East where British soldiers are fighting insurgents. The place is not named in the film but at one point a map of Mesopotamia (now known as Iraq) is shown. The commanding colonel brings his new wife to the outpost where she and a captain fall in love. After a battle between the soldiers and insurgents, an insurgent sheik builds a dam to stop water from flowing into a valley of farmers. The colonel is ordered to destroy the dam at all costs, and he and the captain flip a coin to determine who flies an airplane loaded with explosives to bomb the dam. The coin flipped is a real British florin or two shilling silver coin of King George V (1911-1935).

Colonel John Wister commands a small British outpost in the town of Dickit in Mesopotamia (now Iraq). Captain Denny Roark is one of his officers, and he owns a private airplane which he flies as a hobby. Colonel Wister goes to England on leave, meets Julia Ashton, and they marry. Julia had a long-term relationship with a famous aviator who was killed in an aviation accident. She declares that she will never love another man, but marries the colonel to escape boredom and agrees to accompany him to Iraq.

The colonel arrives with his new wife Julia and Captain Roark meets the couple.

At first Julia has no interest in Denny but she begins to see similarities between him and her lost love. The two officers use a map to plan strategy for dealing with the local tribes.

The map shows the principal cities of Iraq including Bagdad and Basra, along with the fictional Dickit. Colonel Wister travels to headquarters leaving Denny and Julia to become better acquainted.

Captain Roark is sent with a group of soldiers to negotiate a deal with a wily Sheik Achaben.

The soldier pass an ancient ruin.

Along the way the detachment is attacked by insurgents and a battle ensues.

Both groups form lines to fire at each other with rifles.

Several soldiers are killed and Captain Roark is brought back to the base wounded. Julia shows extreme worry about him and Colonel Wister sees that she loves him. The colonel is notified by his commander that Sheik Achaben has constructed a dam which has stopped water going to people in a valley. The notice also blames the colonel and threatens to "hold him responsible." The only way to destroy the dam is to load Captain Roark's airplane with explosives and bomb it. The mission is considered a "suicide mission" due to the danger from insurgents. The captain volunteers to fly the airplane but the colonel suggests an old method to decide.

The colonel suggests that the two men flip a coin, Captain Roark calls "heads."

The coin obverse is shown and it is a British silver florin of King George V.

A King George V British florin or two shilling coin:

Silver, 28 mm, 11.30 gm
The coin would have been minted between 1911 and 1935.

Captain wonders about the choice.

He goes to see Julia to tell her goodbye and both hear and see an airplane take off.

Colonel Wister has taken the airplane and is flying it. Later a notice is received that the water is flowing again and that an airplane was shot down.

Kay Francis as Julia Ashton Wister
Errol Flynn as Captain Denny Roark
Ian Hunter as Colonel John Wister
Director: William Dieterle
Writers: Laird Doyle, W. Somerset Maugham (story "The Ambassador's Wife")