"The Black Coin" is a 15-chapter serial produced by Louis Weiss and released in 1936, with many credits familiar from their previous serial, "The Clutching Hand." The original story is by George M. Merrick, with screenplay by Dallas M. Fitzgerald, Eddy Graneman, Bob Lively and Albert Herman, the latter directing the serial. Herman had directed "The Clutching Hand," and also "The Whispering Shadow" for Mascot in 1933.