Pawn Stars penny buckets

That Confederate half was worth easily double what Rick paid, he said he'll take the first $500 that walks through the door, I'll give him 500 for that in a heart beat

 

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here is a link if anyone wants to watch it. http://www.history.com/shows/pawn-stars/videos/pawn-stars-room-and-hoard#pawn-stars-room-and-hoard

 

I have a friend who worked in pawn shops for many years. The really good stuff generally never makes it to the shelves...

 

Doesn't surprise me at all. I am sure most get some decent items.

 

Maybe so but they don't come in often enough to make a weekly TV show about it. No one is going to tune in to watch them sit around waiting for the next guy to bring in the thousandth electric guitar and old amp to pawn while they wait for that one cool item a month or every other month that happens to come through the door..

And that is what you would get if they didn't stage the show

 

The information I have states that only four Confederate half dollars were minted by the Confederacy. The dies were used in the 1870's to reproduce the coin but they are not true "Confederate" coins.

 

Actually the Confederacy also struck nearly a million 1861-O half dollars using the regular Union dies. These coins struck by the confederacy CAN be identified from the 2 million struck by the State of Louisiana, or the 200K struck by the United States. One of the obverse dies used by the Confederacy for the 1861-O coins they struck is the same obv die that they used for the four Confederate States half dollars. 1861-O halves made using that obv die command an extra premium over the other five die pairs the Confederacy used.

 

only four of the altered die coins were struck. but when La. left the union, the made a crapload of the "confederate" halves with the US supplied dies. http://www.rebelstatescurrency.com/half_dollar.html

 

I was watching this one. It COULD have the obverse die crack, but I wasn't convinced. It jumped from $60 to over $300 in the last few seconds. Obviously a couple bidders thought this was the CSA minted one. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1861-O-SEAT...68?pt=Coins_US_Individual&hash=item3ccead6b5c

 

Hoarding copper cents? Thats crazy talk...nobody does that. Must be totally staged
Guy

 

ff-topic:

I have a good Army buddy that lives somewhere by I called him last night.
Yup Hester shop he called A Dump. but closed up due a bankruptcy! Yup was the top money man on most of the shows I seen or made sound like he was?? that may why he saying that
But he was on the Show last night????? Why ask Why?TV?

 

I watched that episode the other day. I thought the half dollar sold too cheap but the guy has to make money.

 

Here's how you get on Pawn Stars: http://www.history.com/shows/pawn-s...rs?cmpid=Social_Facebook_Pawnstars_02132013_1

Just like I figured, your e-mail is going to the production company.

 

Just watched the episode. There were shield cents on top. They must really assume the viewers aren't competent.

 

I'd say most viewers aren't competent.

 

I bet 95+% of viewers didn't know the difference

 

No doubt. I mean, how often do you see someone playing a Les Paul in a musical scene and it's very clearly a Stratocaster on the soundtrack?