The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 45, November 7, 2004, Article 10

NATIONAL TREASURE: THE MOVIE

  Recent television ads have been promoting an upcoming
  film which uses a U.S. currency design as a plot device.
  Starring Nicholas Cage, the film "National Treasure" is set
  to open on November 19, 2004.  The action-adventure
  film's plot was summarized as follows on the ComingSoon
  web site:

  "Academy Award winner Nicholas Cage stars as the brilliant
  Benjamin Franklin Gates, third generation treasure hunter.
  All his life, Gates has been searching for a treasure no one
  believed existed: amassed through the ages, moved across
  continents, to become the greatest treasure the world has
  ever known. Hidden by our Founding Fathers, they left
  clues to the Treasure's location right before our eyes...
  from our nation's birthplace, to the nation's capital, to clues
  buried within the symbols on the dollar bill."

  comingsoon.net

  The film's official web site is: National Treasure

  Anything that gets the general public to take a closer
  look at currency is a good thing for numismatics.  Of
  course, the film will likely spawn further cockamamie
  theories about the symbolism on the bill."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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