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@L. Kennedy you can’t tell a soft from hard metal off of visualization, it is real gold, he’s prolly melted it into other stuff and back into a bar somewhere down the line.
@A M Not really. It has no special markings, which means it would be pretty hard to match it to the cargo of a special ship, especially considering that those cargo lists (if they even survived) weren't neccessarily complete. Sometimes crewmates from these ships bought gold cheaper in the harbour where the ship was loaded, then sold it once they got home, which generally wasn't allowed, but kind of tolerated. So this might have been a captain's or officer's private treasure, making it hard to prove it's from a Spanish/French/English or any other nation's ship.
@Random Guy LOL it was made like 600 years ago and has been underwater that long, of course it's not gonna look pristine like a gold bar made today with modern technology.
Like Rick said, silver is the best conductor of electricity available. What he failed to mention is that silver is extremely effective against vampires and werewolves.
@Joe Blow Not really, Silver has a spot price at any given moment. The Seller likely got Spot price, possible even with a bit of premium. Considering he is literally timed the market perfectly, that guy got a great deal. He bought at the deepest valley and sold at a recent peak, that Silver dropped to 69k and is now worth 90k-ish today.
Silver is actually the best conductor, but gold is most often used in electronic parts because gold does not tarnish. Ever. Silver will tarnish in air and contacts made of it will become less conductive.
@Carl carl gold and silver did lose value in the muslim world. And the Spanish empire brought back silver and gold thus inflation they was poorer because of it and the great depression all money lost value food and water are far move valuable then anything
@the second silvereich yes mali empire experienced inflation increasing gold supply but gold never lost its value compared to any fiat that it outlived
@kitkat47 Chrysalis yes where does gold stand now, where are all the fiats from the past, either destroyed or in museums, all central banks hold it, the top 1% hold it, majority of nations hold it, it's traded for other commodities, gold and silver has never and will never hit 0, any fiat and paper currencies all go back to its true intrinsic value....0
my favorite from this show is someone coming in and asking 5,000 for something. Rick calls in the expert and finds out its worth 50,000 and now they wont take 40,000 for it... people are greedy AF
@Squirelockholms what you guys should know about coin grading: a MINT one, meaning 100% undamaged, at MS+, sold for 370k. This guy brought in an AU53 which means almost uncirculated--it has been handled, has visible defects and scratches up to 5% damaged, and is at one of the lower grades in the AU (50-59) category. It's a day and night difference. While it is indeed very rare (~30 in existence), the fair market price at auction as of today is around 30-33k. He was delusional trying to pawn it off (literally) at the value of an uncirculated coin.
I always think it's funny when the experts shake Rick or Corey or Chum or The Old Man's hand and kinda glance at the unsatisfied seller like maybe I'll shake his hand but quickly turn the other way
Geez, people. He didn't get scammed, the gold was literally worth 24k. Melt price is standard, there is no scamming beyond that. Guy would have likely accepted melt price, but Rick informed him it may be worth more and paid him more. Maybe today it may be worth more with the melt value, but that is the nature of gold, it changes. Guy got a good deal for the time.
I always wonder why the sellers don’t look around and try to sell it to the specialist or try to sell it themselves and then come back if it doesn’t sell.
@benry007 they don't get paid from the show. Their business gets free exposure and in turn their business gets more customers, and in turn get paid that way.
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That $111,000 was around the absolute peak of the silver price… silver lost more than half its value over the next few years and stayed that way for another 5 years.
All precious medals go up and down. Was alot silver mined in south america thats why the $ went down but silver is used more in technology than for jewelry(like gold). If they suddenly found a bunch of gold in south america it would go wayyyy down, because gold isnt really used in alot of applications other than jewelry
@V - hey bro, I buy silver almost daily. He paid 32.49, that's what people are buying for RIGHT NOW. One dollar of those dimes or quarters are selling for 19-23x face value 😂😂 but go ahead bud.
@EC. George o7I invest in old lego sets lol. Bought an unopened set from 2003 for 500$ and the unopened version is worth 1000$ today so I doubled my money.
Dang, the only time someone actually got a good deal selling something at this Pawn shop was the first guy. I don't think that has ever happened or will ever happen again with Rick. Lol watching the expert try to low ball the rare silver penny was such a blatant example of Rick and his expert trying to get a cut
@#IncognitoNegress How is that a set up? If 2 of the 30 coins in existence sold within the past two years at $30,000 at auction that is how much the coin is worth.
Hahah, I can’t tell if this comment is sarcastic or not but those experts almost always give them a low ball figure so the pawn shop can offer them even less, then Rick and his buddies can give them a cut for helping to rip the guy off.
For the old man asking for 102k for the steel penny, the sites that he was referring to are indeed offering 80 to 110k for that coin, BUT they want that coin in "MINT" Condition. PCGS rated his coin AU53, which is below average to average at best. Also, little interesting fact, PCGS actually has that coin (with the same grade) in their records, being sold in auction for 34,500k.
@Crappie King Dre that coin is rarer than any rare quarter cuz all pennies now are brown not steal, u will never ever find a coin like that in your life so it's super rare
I enjoy hearing everyone telling the boys how easy it would be to sell what they brought in and how much money they can make. But you're in a pawn shop trying to sell it. Do yourself what your telling them to do.
14:49. When they talk about the 1944 cent it's quite important to mention the grade of the coin because that will effect the value of it multiplicatively. It's received a pretty average grade, but on such a rare coin that basically means it receives a comparable amount of money as whatever the auctions have brought for one of the same or finer grade. I'm dissapointed they didn't go through this aspect with the coin, although I realize on this particular variety grade matters far less than almost any other coin, due to it's fantastic story and time period.
That head of Caesar should 100% be sold in auction by the owner. I mean it just looks all around so sellable. It's 100% silver, with solid historical background, it's freaking Caesar, and it just looks very good. Overall, it's just something even wealthy non collector could easily buy as decoration.
@jon smith And it's not worth half of what a pristine coin would be worth. Pristine coins are one-of-a-kind items (or atleast very, very rare), circulated coins aren't. A pristine coin might be worth 10 times what you'd get for a circulated coin, sometimes even more.
What people are missing is those are high premium Engelhard bars. They are no longer being made. That is not just junk silver! I like how Rick just puts everything on one of those kind of scales you weigh aluminum cans on. Wonder how far off it is set.
Imagine if this wasn't scripted and was actually filmed on spot. "I'm gonna have to call in an expert are you okay with that?" "Yeah sure" *expert comes in 3hrs later and tells the owner his valued possession is worth 2 cents and a used condom*
@C rooftop Show’s not necessarily “fake”, but it is staged in a sense. People come in with cool items, Pawn Stars get the item appraised, agree on a deal, and schedule the filming at a later time. They have the “expert” come in, do some fake price haggling, and sign a disclosure to allow them to film the transaction. The store isn’t actually open when they do the filming. Everyone in the background are extras that have signed disclosures. But it is a real store, but all of the high ticket items they buy go to auction/private buyers. There isn’t really anything of value in the store.
When the guy with the scale came in and tried to get some more money for the gold because of historic value, Rick Harrison says "at the end of the day gold is gold" and then in the next clip with the shipwreck gold bar he's saying the exact opposite of what he just said.
After seeing so many episodes of grand kids selling off the items their grand parents left them for pennies on the dollar, I think I'm just going to spend that inheritance and they can collect their own personal treasures!
Yeah @Troy D, there was an episode that showed Rick going to an auction in California where he sold many items like a guitar from Vic Flik and other high priced items. Every one of his auctions were lower than the price the experts said he would get for an item. I think he probably lost around 100,000 dollars. So knowing what the public would pay for an item is knowledge that is very much needed. Also in general it may not fully determine value, but it does help since if someone paid 30,000 for it in an auction recently, chances are not that many people who have really really big pockets aren’t looking for the coin at the moment, so it does give a general idea of what the coin could be priced at in the given moment.
@Troy D what people will actually pay for an item 100% determines its value, public auctions are the most realistic determinations. He did end up selling this on auction for $32k but only made around $25k after fees.
@Troy D 😂😂😂😂😂 bringing gold into it? Do you not understand how the price of gold and therefore its value is set? Its not experts in the field determining the value and updating it constantly. Its what the gold is selling for. If at the end of the day, gold is selling for 1200 an ounce, then its value is $1200 an ounce. Just as a painting that sells for $500,000 is worth half a million, even if an expert appraised it at 1 million or $100,000. Because financial value for literally everything is determined by what someone is willing to pay for it.
The value is right. 100k you'd maybe pay for a mint state coin. His coin is Almost Uncirculated 53/AU53(AU goes from 50-58). The lower AU grades sell for 20-35k.
my favorite part is where the person pawning is just blankly staring at the pawn shop guys as they go through their lil history lesson, the people must be thinking "Ya ya thats nice just give me the money and ill be on my way"
I'm gonna have to disagree with the steel penny deal, since these public auctions are, well... public. Those aren't the set prices for any and all collectibles like the steel penny. Unless however, it's an auction being held by the city/state or a corporation then the low ball starting price would be an expected standard.
When Rick told him the gold bar was worth 48K, and offered him 35K, and stated he didn't really want to pay that much, the guy should have took the bar and started walking out the door and Rick would have went up to 40K as fast as he could because he knws he wouldn't need an auction to sell it. Plus he probably sold it right away fro 50K.
If it's worth $48K who in their right mind would pay $50K? Come on man. Do you think somebody with $50K to spend in one shot on gold is not gonna know what they're getting into? Rick had to get it for less than $48K. Not only less than $48K, but enough under to make it worth his time. The most I'd pay is like $2-3K less, so $45K. And keep in mind that's without factoring in the idea that the silver could drop considerably in value overnight. You also have to think it's not like there's a line of people around the corner ready to drop $48K on a piece of gold. You're going for a really small market there. Those people know they have the leverage and they're gonna want to haggle a little bit (I know I would). I do think the $40K you suggested was pretty fair, $35K is low, but no clue where you got the idea that someone would pay over meld for it. It's not like some piece of jewelry made by a famouse artist or something.
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@Rixxze_ what?
@TRUE_STRIKER9001 they will steel from you they true price like the true
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@xoutlawsforlifex u
The $111,000 worth of silver was the most honest and most realistic pawn shop deal so far
@porterhouse416 lmfao kind of like how everyone has the freedom to choose between homelessness and starvation or wage labour
howd it get there englehards is in the uk
3:24 baby EAT IT BABY
@Paul Kemezis
Why do they haggle.
They did haggle right on this video
You are acting like you are pro in these types of jobs
Kid get some milk
Just enjoy it
Gotta love the way they educate the sellers before shattering their hope by giving half price they ask for.
Sometimes it is way even lower than the price
@Bindu Tiwari to state that's it's unnecessary. Your point?
@pappi necessary enough for you to comment
This program is fake go Vegas and visit the store 😂😂
It's definitely not already scripted lmaao Americans have no idea what to believe anymore hhhh
That gold bar was so amazing! Actual ship wreck treasure, I'm assuming his grandparents found during the time it was illegal to own. Amazing
@L. Kennedy you can’t tell a soft from hard metal off of visualization, it is real gold, he’s prolly melted it into other stuff and back into a bar somewhere down the line.
@A M Not really. It has no special markings, which means it would be pretty hard to match it to the cargo of a special ship, especially considering that those cargo lists (if they even survived) weren't neccessarily complete. Sometimes crewmates from these ships bought gold cheaper in the harbour where the ship was loaded, then sold it once they got home, which generally wasn't allowed, but kind of tolerated. So this might have been a captain's or officer's private treasure, making it hard to prove it's from a Spanish/French/English or any other nation's ship.
@L. Kennedy lmao yeah soft you’re crazy dude you think real good is like dough
Some of these comments 🤦♂️
@Random Guy LOL it was made like 600 years ago and has been underwater that long, of course it's not gonna look pristine like a gold bar made today with modern technology.
Like Rick said, silver is the best conductor of electricity available. What he failed to mention is that silver is extremely effective against vampires and werewolves.
@Joe Blow Not really, Silver has a spot price at any given moment. The Seller likely got Spot price, possible even with a bit of premium. Considering he is literally timed the market perfectly, that guy got a great deal. He bought at the deepest valley and sold at a recent peak, that Silver dropped to 69k and is now worth 90k-ish today.
It must not work on vampires cuz those bloodsuckers still sucked every penny out of the seller!
Silver is actually the best conductor, but gold is most often used in electronic parts because gold does not tarnish. Ever. Silver will tarnish in air and contacts made of it will become less conductive.
He misspoke. Gold is actually the best conductor, but obviously it is rare to be used in that regard because of how expensive it is.
If their leash is silver.
Crazy that silver sale almost marked the exact top of silver it has never been back to that price level. That silver investor timed the market perfect
@Carl carl gold and silver did lose value in the muslim world. And the Spanish empire brought back silver and gold thus inflation they was poorer because of it and the great depression all money lost value food and water are far move valuable then anything
@the second silvereich yes mali empire experienced inflation increasing gold supply but gold never lost its value compared to any fiat that it outlived
@Carl carl the Mali empire king mansa musta would like a word with you also inca empire called
@kitkat47 Chrysalis yes where does gold stand now, where are all the fiats from the past, either destroyed or in museums, all central banks hold it, the top 1% hold it, majority of nations hold it, it's traded for other commodities, gold and silver has never and will never hit 0, any fiat and paper currencies all go back to its true intrinsic value....0
The show isn't quite the same without the Old Man may he rest peacefully.
Q.L. Wynn he just successfully trolled 6 people 😂
@Damien L
@Damien L child
@Damien You are fly in the soup.
I love how Rick smiles when people’s dreams get crushed seeing their prices increasingly drop.
It’s business noting personal
Do you enjoy wearing a mask??? 🤣
@Echo yeah people don't understand they'll believe anything.. A lot of people actually believe a munchkin hanged himself on The Wizard of Oz lol
@New Balance 2020 the guy with the gold bar came in wanting 24k and left with 35k. Yes, he got punked...🤣🤣
People think when they see prices online that’s what it’s worth but that’s only what people are ASKING for
I love how people go to a pawn shop expecting to get top dollar for their 'precious' and are confused when they don't get their asking price.
Best tactic in selling your precious is saying that you want way more than you actually want that way you have higher chance of getting more money
Spoken like a true former pawn shop employee 😎
Even better when the comments are all up right about it xD
I WANT 48
my favorite from this show is someone coming in and asking 5,000 for something. Rick calls in the expert and finds out its worth 50,000 and now they wont take 40,000 for it... people are greedy AF
The grin the old man had when he got up and saw that cart rolling in! True silver stacker!
I'm with the old man on that ..Gold is cool but I've always loved Silver much more
@Please STFU Like Fafnir.
Rick is secretly a dragon and made a pawn shop to hoard the silver.
"I don't know where the expert came up with that value."
He told you 50 times it was from a public auction.
The comment i was looking for :D
They are worth 100K easy
@Squirelockholms what you guys should know about coin grading: a MINT one, meaning 100% undamaged, at MS+, sold for 370k. This guy brought in an AU53 which means almost uncirculated--it has been handled, has visible defects and scratches up to 5% damaged, and is at one of the lower grades in the AU (50-59) category. It's a day and night difference. While it is indeed very rare (~30 in existence), the fair market price at auction as of today is around 30-33k. He was delusional trying to pawn it off (literally) at the value of an uncirculated coin.
I always think it's funny when the experts shake Rick or Corey or Chum or The Old Man's hand and kinda glance at the unsatisfied seller like maybe I'll shake his hand but quickly turn the other way
@Chelsea968 just did some research, can't remember the article, but I google searched the coin and auction value
that was cool how rick didnt just take the gold bar for face value but actually told the customer that it’s way rarer
I love the guy with the gold coin’s laugh when said $40,000
@Ehri Chan He didn't, the bail was 50,000.
Because he doesn’t want to go to jail and got his money worth
The seller erupted with laughter
I love how the guy walked in with a random block of gold he knew nothing about and walked away with 35 grand
Geez, people. He didn't get scammed, the gold was literally worth 24k. Melt price is standard, there is no scamming beyond that. Guy would have likely accepted melt price, but Rick informed him it may be worth more and paid him more.
Maybe today it may be worth more with the melt value, but that is the nature of gold, it changes. Guy got a good deal for the time.
He got burned
@Harry Wienee if you have no conscience
@Harry Wienee Ain't splitting anything.
@Harry Wienee Wow, that reveals a lot about the kind of person you are.
I wonder how much Rick actually knows about the coins that come into the shop and how much they have to research and memorize for each episode.
Not much one time he melted a bag of gold coins for melt and lost like 50-60k and some coins where worth thousands
Expert: This is worth $1,000,000
Rick: Best I can do is $30,000 and I’m really giving you a deal here
I always wonder why the sellers don’t look around and try to sell it to the specialist or try to sell it themselves and then come back if it doesn’t sell.
@Brian Fallon 😆
100 dollar bills hard cash
I mean..I’m taking all the risk here. It’s going to take a ton of floor space..
And he is giving him a deal, real pawn broker would have offered half that much!
It never ceases to amaze me that people are so willing to part with valuable precious metals for so much less then what they're worth...WOW!!!
Rick is lowkey a legend. It’s takes a man like that to be the face of a TV show
I love how quickly the expert (the guy) comes in to give his quote. It’s almost like they are waiting all day just for that call lol.
The expert is in on lowballing the seller
There's always a thing called editing
@benry007 they don't get paid from the show. Their business gets free exposure and in turn their business gets more customers, and in turn get paid that way.
I always wonder how much they pay those people
@That Won Dude staged not scripted, there’s a difference
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I love this episode, me myself being a Gold and Silver Collector 👍🏽
That $111,000 was around the absolute peak of the silver price… silver lost more than half its value over the next few years and stayed that way for another 5 years.
All precious medals go up and down. Was alot silver mined in south america thats why the $ went down but silver is used more in technology than for jewelry(like gold). If they suddenly found a bunch of gold in south america it would go wayyyy down, because gold isnt really used in alot of applications other than jewelry
That first guy seemed like a really nice guy. Happy he got more than he expected
I love it when he is making regular and big purchase. That he looks over at his father at the end of the bid and says. What do you think. Priceless.
The guy with the silver bought and sold at the perfect times. That silver is worth close to $40k less today.
@V - hey bro, I buy silver almost daily. He paid 32.49, that's what people are buying for RIGHT NOW. One dollar of those dimes or quarters are selling for 19-23x face value 😂😂 but go ahead bud.
@Tristin Smith Nope. Worth around $66k now. Silver hovering just over $22/oz.
That silver right now is worth the same it was then.
@EC. George o7I invest in old lego sets lol. Bought an unopened set from 2003 for 500$ and the unopened version is worth 1000$ today so I doubled my money.
@V - regular joes still thinking the game isnt rigged 🥱 keep losing money & giving to your masters
"If you can get coral to grow on it."
"I got a fishtank!"
Hoss can be so clever sometimes! Great sense of humor!
I always admired the old man for his love of commodities.
Dang, the only time someone actually got a good deal selling something at this Pawn shop was the first guy. I don't think that has ever happened or will ever happen again with Rick.
Lol watching the expert try to low ball the rare silver penny was such a blatant example of Rick and his expert trying to get a cut
Read somewhere that the old guy auctioned that silver coin and got 42k
@MineCraving one had sold in 2008 for over 300,000, bet the guy could get a better deal if he looked
@MineCraving idk...I'm surmising on the prev posters comment. I'm not tryna offend...
🙏🏽
@#IncognitoNegress How is that a set up? If 2 of the 30 coins in existence sold within the past two years at $30,000 at auction that is how much the coin is worth.
Yup. That looked Iike a clear setup
I appreciate that they are not trying to penny pinch or take advantage of unsuspecting sellers but always trying to get a fair estimate.
@Christopher Anderson yeah its terribly obvious😁
On camera at least..
@Christopher Anderson yeah I was abt to say that I couldn’t tell if they were being sarcastic 😂
Hahah, I can’t tell if this comment is sarcastic or not but those experts almost always give them a low ball figure so the pawn shop can offer them even less, then Rick and his buddies can give them a cut for helping to rip the guy off.
The old man got up quicker than the Flash when he heard about that silver...i really miss that guy
wait, did he passed away?when does it happend
For the old man asking for 102k for the steel penny, the sites that he was referring to are indeed offering 80 to 110k for that coin, BUT they want that coin in "MINT" Condition. PCGS rated his coin AU53, which is below average to average at best.
Also, little interesting fact, PCGS actually has that coin (with the same grade) in their records, being sold in auction for 34,500k.
Excellent comment. That’s what I was curious about
“They sold at auctions… That doesn’t mean anything… I can get 5x what something sells for in auction!”
@Crappie King Dre that coin is rarer than any rare quarter cuz all pennies now are brown not steal, u will never ever find a coin like that in your life so it's super rare
I got a 1944 steel penny. Should I go for the 35k??? Any recommendations
@JB what video?
It’s funny how the party with the guy with the load of silver is probably the single most interesting segment in this entire show
I enjoy hearing everyone telling the boys how easy it would be to sell what they brought in and how much money they can make. But you're in a pawn shop trying to sell it. Do yourself what your telling them to do.
12:31 my man in the background grabbed the best item in the store😂❤
That but grab?
The best silver.
Rick’s knowledge is mind blowing, this man knows history like no other
@Oneofdazzz yep, but knowing all these history stuff after dealing with a lot of things over the years is understandable
That or he knows how to read a script.
I absolutely love the sound of silver coins
I love the look on Rick's face when he was talking to the second customer about the gold bar and his son interrupted 😆
@FlameMage2 🤣🤣🤣👊
7:03
@Dan S indeed
_”they talk, when they should listen.”_
_”Never tell anybody outside the family what you’re thinking.”_ *-Don Vito*
Didn't the son see the Godfather 1
movie?
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14:49. When they talk about the 1944 cent it's quite important to mention the grade of the coin because that will effect the value of it multiplicatively. It's received a pretty average grade, but on such a rare coin that basically means it receives a comparable amount of money as whatever the auctions have brought for one of the same or finer grade. I'm dissapointed they didn't go through this aspect with the coin, although I realize on this particular variety grade matters far less than almost any other coin, due to it's fantastic story and time period.
Yes ❤ I agree in i myself own 4 steel cents
“My dad always taught me to invest” takes it to the worst place ever to sell anything
That doesn't apply to silver at melt prices. Everyone offers the same deal.
"I want the absolute best price for my item." Takes it to a pawn shop.
I appreciate all that can be learned on this program. Rick is quite knowledgeable.
The writers are bro
It is crazy how he valued that coin at such a low price when they pulled it up in 2008 it valued an over $300,000
People can't accept that it's fake, literal children.
@Maruchan 🤓🤓🤓
@Al As 57 oh I assumed it was real
@Al As 57 🤓
I love this show so much. It's an amazing comfort at times
What’s crazy is when the items are actually super rare and valuable, but the people still want more cash
Love this show 👍💯
I liked that last seller..From expectation of quarter of million to some grands..but still he is happy af of getting something instead of nothing😂
You really learn a lot of stuff from these guys.
as a coin collector that would be my dream to own that bag of silver quarters and dimes
That head of Caesar should 100% be sold in auction by the owner. I mean it just looks all around so sellable. It's 100% silver, with solid historical background, it's freaking Caesar, and it just looks very good. Overall, it's just something even wealthy non collector could easily buy as decoration.
@TY Harris"THAT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!"
@TY Harris bet they would have gave him 200k for it.
I bet Caesar’s placate would but it!
100%. That’s an incredible and beautiful piece of art and history. Any art auction house would be thrilled to be called up and offered it.
@AltruisticWarrior Great minds think alike.
Gotta love how quickly The Old Man got up as soon as he heard silver
To this day, that guy still doesn't understand that auctions are the benchmark for prices.
He could've got around 80j for it it had scratches and dirt on it
@Coolfwipthat wasn’t pristine and websites won’t always give u correct info
@jon smith And it's not worth half of what a pristine coin would be worth. Pristine coins are one-of-a-kind items (or atleast very, very rare), circulated coins aren't. A pristine coin might be worth 10 times what you'd get for a circulated coin, sometimes even more.
@MyRegardsToTheDodo yeah that's why he was asking 100k half price ..derrrr.
@Coolfwip It isn't in pristine condition, it's been circulated, has scratches and grime on it.
What people are missing is those are high premium Engelhard bars. They are no longer being made. That is not just junk silver!
I like how Rick just puts everything on one of those kind of scales you weigh aluminum cans on. Wonder how far off it is set.
I love how they deal for any items.
Love it is nice to see how much a piece of gold or silver can 💲
Enjoyed the view of the episode! I like the way the owner was so trustworthy! Great job of being ethical! Thanks for being honest!
He actually gave him a very very good deal on the silver
Legend says the bondsman is still rubbing his hands together anytime he says the phrase "worth a lot of money".
00:30 his dad thought to him invest but didn’t teach him to stay away from pawnshops 😂
The Dad is an absolute Rockstar!!!
Old bald patch guy was the best refused 25k and wanted 75k now had me laughing 🤣🤣🤣
This never gets boring. I've watched it like 6 times.
I love how the “expert” just happens to be free everytime they call lol
Imagine if this wasn't scripted and was actually filmed on spot.
"I'm gonna have to call in an expert are you okay with that?"
"Yeah sure"
*expert comes in 3hrs later and tells the owner his valued possession is worth 2 cents and a used condom*
Almost like he makes this scheduled free when they know the days the show films episodes...
Retainer contracts.
They break the experts off 😂 lol
@C rooftop Show’s not necessarily “fake”, but it is staged in a sense. People come in with cool items, Pawn Stars get the item appraised, agree on a deal, and schedule the filming at a later time. They have the “expert” come in, do some fake price haggling, and sign a disclosure to allow them to film the transaction. The store isn’t actually open when they do the filming. Everyone in the background are extras that have signed disclosures. But it is a real store, but all of the high ticket items they buy go to auction/private buyers. There isn’t really anything of value in the store.
Imagine being offered $111,000 and negotiate for $112,000
Imagine getting taken on something that has a set market value.
Silver is market rate so there’s a max on it
1k is still quite a bit of money
That comes out to about $0.30 per ounce difference.
You don't think about 1% of the price is worth negotiating about? You much be some kind of salesman...
25:36 - that laugh, one of the funniest moments of Pawn Stars
25:35*
I love how he was bargaining 100k+ 😂😂
Чудова передача.!!!
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I like how Rick was on a good mood on the Silver bars episode.
DIAMANATARAPATHA no it's supposed to be "Rick wasrn't a gokd mood"
Igneous Zepuloon sorry Ms. English teacher, my apologies I forgot we were in class.
@lostboynotfound That is punctuation.
When the guy with the scale came in and tried to get some more money for the gold because of historic value, Rick Harrison says "at the end of the day gold is gold" and then in the next clip with the shipwreck gold bar he's saying the exact opposite of what he just said.
Thats what i said lmao
I love how people try to argue with the professional appraisers like they know better
After seeing so many episodes of grand kids selling off the items their grand parents left them for pennies on the dollar, I think I'm just going to spend that inheritance and they can collect their own personal treasures!
It's the mini history facts that always gets me.
I would take the gold bar over that steel dime 😂
Expert - "The last two of these that sold at auciton went for 30k." Owner - "I don't know where that expert got that number from."
Interesting how the "expert" knows off the top of his head what a steel penny went for at a public auction
Yeah @Troy D, there was an episode that showed Rick going to an auction in California where he sold many items like a guitar from Vic Flik and other high priced items. Every one of his auctions were lower than the price the experts said he would get for an item. I think he probably lost around 100,000 dollars. So knowing what the public would pay for an item is knowledge that is very much needed. Also in general it may not fully determine value, but it does help since if someone paid 30,000 for it in an auction recently, chances are not that many people who have really really big pockets aren’t looking for the coin at the moment, so it does give a general idea of what the coin could be priced at in the given moment.
@Troy D what people will actually pay for an item 100% determines its value, public auctions are the most realistic determinations. He did end up selling this on auction for $32k but only made around $25k after fees.
@Troy D
😂😂😂😂😂 bringing gold into it? Do you not understand how the price of gold and therefore its value is set? Its not experts in the field determining the value and updating it constantly. Its what the gold is selling for. If at the end of the day, gold is selling for 1200 an ounce, then its value is $1200 an ounce. Just as a painting that sells for $500,000 is worth half a million, even if an expert appraised it at 1 million or $100,000. Because financial value for literally everything is determined by what someone is willing to pay for it.
The value is right.
100k you'd maybe pay for a mint state coin. His coin is Almost Uncirculated 53/AU53(AU goes from 50-58).
The lower AU grades sell for 20-35k.
It amazes me how many people expect Rick to pay a collector's price for items. It's a PAWN SHOP, they Sell this stuff.
my favorite part is where the person pawning is just blankly staring at the pawn shop guys as they go through their lil history lesson, the people must be thinking "Ya ya thats nice just give me the money and ill be on my way"
A 1944 steel penny sold for 1.1 million dollars and Rick was trying to buy it for 25k 😂😂😂
@bliczy MS63 grade (currently highest) are valued at 1.1M, according to usacoinbook
where
I'm gonna have to disagree with the steel penny deal, since these public auctions are, well... public. Those aren't the set prices for any and all collectibles like the steel penny.
Unless however, it's an auction being held by the city/state or a corporation then the low ball starting price would be an expected standard.
That silver Caesar bust is one of the coolest things ever
I love the Old Man’s reaction looking at that giant brick of silver “move your hand”
Funny how they always give an estimate that’s about 30% less than what the person wanted
most people get their asking price from the current valuation. dont take it to a pawn shop if you want the current valuation
funny how in the first seasons of Pawn Stars people thought this was like the Antique Road Show 😆
The old man buying that double eagle I thought I was going to see him smile
Would absolutely sell a penny for 25k. 😂 Having something in a case that I can’t use doesn’t make sense to me.
Missed a golden opportunity to make “Cents” work here Mark lol
I love this show so much
It would be interesting to see where they go with these things and how much they make on them. Especially the ship wreck gold bar.
I’m pretty sure the silver from the first clip is used to make the old man coins featured later on in the series
My mom jokes that these guys should hire me to just say “HA!” At every ridiculous price asked by customers.
Wholesome
That guy with the 3000 oz of silver did really good. It’s not even close to that with today’s prices.
Never let jewelers or pawn shops polish your gold or diamonds or platinum or silver 🥈 etc
Both my dad and I search through our change looking for wheat pennies and we found a lot of copper ones and one steel one.
Didn’t know Edward Norton was a coin expert 😂
I'm really surprised that Rick didn't measure the specific gravity of the giant silver bar as well as drilling it.
Rick is a master negotiator
When Rick told him the gold bar was worth 48K, and offered him 35K, and stated he didn't really want to pay that much, the guy should have took the bar and started walking out the door and Rick would have went up to 40K as fast as he could because he knws he wouldn't need an auction to sell it. Plus he probably sold it right away fro 50K.
If it's worth $48K who in their right mind would pay $50K? Come on man. Do you think somebody with $50K to spend in one shot on gold is not gonna know what they're getting into? Rick had to get it for less than $48K. Not only less than $48K, but enough under to make it worth his time. The most I'd pay is like $2-3K less, so $45K. And keep in mind that's without factoring in the idea that the silver could drop considerably in value overnight. You also have to think it's not like there's a line of people around the corner ready to drop $48K on a piece of gold. You're going for a really small market there. Those people know they have the leverage and they're gonna want to haggle a little bit (I know I would).
I do think the $40K you suggested was pretty fair, $35K is low, but no clue where you got the idea that someone would pay over meld for it. It's not like some piece of jewelry made by a famouse artist or something.
I just love it when the owners aren’t happy and have no clue.
Loved Cory's comment, "I've got a fish tank."
My dad always told me to invest “and now I’m here to cash out on my investment”.
Shoulda listened to him. Cashing out 😂
10:34 The way Corey delivered the "I got a fish tank" line killed me!
Was thinking the same all time line as far as the show is concerned
@Elias okay Mr good vibes
Wasn’t funny to me just kinda lame
I love that this video has 102 thousand likes! The original asking price of the 1944 steel penny!
At 12:30, the hand of the buddy in the background is going places 😂
Who else be wishing they ever run into this kinda luck 😂 a Family Heirloom , Hidden Coin 🪙 , ancient Treasure etc