The 1950 film "Kim" shows some unusual prop coins substituting for British Indian rupees. The film is based on Rudyard Kipling's novel about a young boy in 1880's British India who becomes a government agent in the border area between India and Afghanistan. The film stars Errol Flynn as Mahbub Ali the Red Beard and Dean Stockwell as Kim. In one scene a local leader brings a chest of silver rupees and opens it. The coins are Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Company President Monroe prop coins.

Kim is a young British boy living in late 1800's British India. He has a friend "Red Beard."

A local leader brings a chest with some silver coins to pay associates.

He has brought a money chest.

The coins are supposed to be British India rupees.

The coins are Los Angeles Rubber Stamp Company President Monroe Motion Picture prop coins.

Aluminum, 35.0 mm, 3.9 gm

Obverse:
President Monroe facing half left in circle
COMPLIMENTS OF / LOS ANGELES RUBBER STAMP CO.
Reverse:
Los Angeles city emblem with flag, bear, eagle, castle, lion
MONROE DOCTRONE (mispelling) CENTENNIAL 1923
STADIUM, LOS ANGELES. CALIF.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES / FOUNDED 1781

Silver, 30.0 mm, 11.50 gm

Errol Flynn as Mahbub Ali the Red Beard
Dean Stockwell as Kim
Paul Lukas as Lama
Robert Douglas as Colonel Creighton
Director: Victor Saville
Writers: Leon Gordon, Helen Deutsch, Rudyard Kipling (novel)