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Hear Me the Money
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When receiving a payment, a character takes a stack of money (or a case of coins) to their ear and flips through it, to hear whether or not all the money they were promised was there. Could be justified; since the paper they print money on is special paper, the sound it makes while flipping might be different than counterfeit bills printed on regular paper. And with coins, various densities and shapes could also make different sounds. Modern coin collectors can sometimes be tipped off that a dime or quarter is one of the pre-1965 varieties made of silver, if it sounds different than normal when landing on a tabletop — silver will sound much more "bright" and vibrant compared to base metal alloys, and this sound has been referred to as the "ring of truth". This is also why many old mechanical cash registers had marble shelves above the cash drawer—it gave an easy place to test the sound of the coins. See also Tasty Gold, for another sensory money test. |
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An adaptation appears in the Girls to the Rescue series. | |
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Ebenezer Scrooge in Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol when counting his money: | |
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Discworld: In Hogfather, the Auditors of Reality leave a rather unusual payment when the commission the Assassin's Guild to off the eponymous holiday figure: blank discs of pure gold. The head of the guild bounces one on his desk, and the sound and bounce of the "coin" confirm its composition for him. The initiation test for the Listening Monks involves one of the masters dropping a coin a thousand yards away and having the prospective initiate determine from the sound whether it landed "heads" or "tails". |
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Family Ties: In the episode "A: My Name is Alex", when Alex was talking to a therapist while dealing with a severe case of Survivor's Guilt over the death of a friend, Alex bragged that he could identify different coins by the sound they made when they hit the floor. | |
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In The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis reunion movie Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis, Dobie and Zelda now run the Gillis Grocery—now also a pharmacy—on their own. Dobie's ear is especially finely tuned to sound of their son Georgie opening the cash register to remove cash and he can hear it no matter where he is in the house. It is so finely that the sound of Georgie opening the till brings Dobie out of a coma at the end of the film. | |
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In the Complete Book of Villains, a 2E Dungeons & Dragons supplement, a dragon is presented as an archetypical villain representing greed. When its minions bring it tribute, it listens to the coins being poured out onto its hoard, and immediately detects from the sound that one of them has cheated it. | |
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In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Quark once professes that the sound of two bricks of gold-pressed latinum tapping make the most beautiful sound in the galaxy. When he attempts to do so, however, they make an unsatisfying "clunk" because all the latinum has been extracted from the bricks, leaving only "worthless gold". | |
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Cabaret: "Money makes the world go around, that clinking, clanking sound." | |
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In the M*A*S*H episode "Payday", Hawkeye draws paymaster duty for the month. After giving everyone their pay, he laments to Radar that serving in Korea has caused him to miss out on at least $3,000 that he could have earned in private practice. Radar takes him seriously and arranges to have an extra $3,000 delivered to the camp. Hawkeye flips through a couple of bundles of scrip and says that one of them is a dollar short. | |
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In Hogfather, the Auditors of Reality leave a rather unusual payment when the commission the Assassin's Guild to off the eponymous holiday figure: blank discs of pure gold. The head of the guild bounces one on his desk, and the sound and bounce of the "coin" confirm its composition for him. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series had this in "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne". The thug thumbing the money to his ears was appropriately named "Numbers". In another scene in the same episode, Joker jingles his coin purse next to his ear, and knows he has 53 cents in it. | |
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The Scorpion King: After recovering his money pouch from a thief, Matthyus gives it a quick shake and immediately knows the thief took one of his stones. | |
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In 'Allo 'Allo!, the rich but rather miserly Monsieur Alfonse is able count the money which is owed him like this. He's good enough to detect the absence of a single, solitary note - at one point, he looks about ready to accuse René of cheating him until René reaches into the box and produces one that had come loose from the sheaf. | |
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Spice and Wolf has an instance that falls somewhere between this and Tasty Gold. Holo is able judge the purity of coins just by clinking them together, leading to the plot point that a city is minting coins that have a lower silver content and are thus worth less. | |
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In SpongeBob SquarePants, Mr Krabs has two songs about this, one is the sound of money, the other is if he could talk to money. Parodied in Pickles when Bubble Bass is inspecting his Krabby Patty |
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An unintentional variant occurs in Down Periscope during a scene where two silent-running submarines are attempting to detect one another. Captain Dodge's Sonar Technician E.T. 'Sonar" Lovacelli (Harland Williams), a character established to have Super-Hearing is able to locate the rival sub when a crewman therein drops a small handful of coins. Lovacelli reports the event down to the amount of money/value of coins dropped which he determined purely from sounds. | |
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South Park episode Super Phun Time has a combination of this and subversion of Tasty Gold. Robbers had stolen both money and food from a Burger King. When one of them wants out, he is given his cut. He then flips through the sandwich to make sure that all of the toppings were there. | |
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On Good Times, pimptastic crime lord Sweet Daddy does this to a stack of money he seized from his lieutenant, Bad News. This is because of a lack of trust in Bad News, who tried to bribe JJ into not giving Sweet Daddy a life-saving blood transfusion, so he could take over Sweet Daddy's operation. | |
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In the novelisation of The Thwarting of Baron Bolligrew, Moloch determines that the Baron has given him forged money by the sound the coins make when struck. (In the original play, he does it by taste, because the money is made of chocolate). | |
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Marcus Lycus can hear the sound of a coin purse being jingled across a noisy room. Pseudelous takes advantage of this to keep Lycus from asking too many questions. | |
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Who's Harry Crumb?? with the late John Candy has this. When he comes upon one stack of bills that he says is short by one, another character rolls her eyes and insists it's insane to think he could know that just by flipping through it. They count out the bills by hand, and sure enough, there's one bill missing. | |
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Vera Louise Gorman in Alice could calculate any stack of currency to the exact dollar this way, as part of her Cloud Cuckoo Lander characterization. | |
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