 CHAR: In the beginning of the movie when George Spota is talking to  the senate committee he states that an arms deal was being paid for  by gold bullion from the civil war. He states that this coin was  carbon dated back to that time. This cannot be so for two reasons.  One if it was brought forward in time it would not have had a chance  to age. But even more so is that you cannot carbon date metals.  Carbon dating can only be used for once living things.